Year's Fatalities. Increase in Motor Accidents. Coroneer's Report
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1924 · page 9
The annual return of the City Coroner, which was issued on Thursday, shows that 65 persons were killed in motor accidents during 1923, as against 57 in 1922. A greater number…
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The Sun · Sunday 6 January 1924 · page 4
Herbert James Moran, aged 41, was drowned in Campbell's River, near Bunnamagoo Station, at Rockley. The deceased had been employed for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Smash Car and Lorry Collide Boy Injured
The Sun · Sunday 6 January 1924 · page 2
A serious motor smash occurred in Forest-road, Arncliffe, last night, as the result of which a motorist has been arrested and charged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Child Injured Back a Mass of Bruises Man Arrested West Maitland
The Sun · Sunday 6 January 1924 · page 2
Owen Dawson Green, aged 29, was before the Kurri Kurri Police Court to-day charged with assaulting Francis White, a boy of 5 years…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor 'Bus Crash Three Injured Oxford Street Accident
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 6
A motor-bus crashed into a telegraph polo in Oxford Street. Waverley, yesterday afternoon. The vehicle was badly damaged and three persons were in jured…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 9
A motor car collided with a lorry in Forest-road, Arncliffe on Saturday night, and a passenger of the car, Richard Watson, 15 years of age, of Anderson-road, Mortdale, was…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 6
When a motor lorry, laden with furniture, and a motor oar collided in Forest Road, Arncliffe, on Saturday night, a boy, Richard Watson, 13, of Moridale…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 10
Hansen Brady and Jack Planner, two Henty schoolboys, were drowned last evening in a dam on Henty Common. They had been playing about the dam with…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Danger at a Bridge Four Men Injured. Series of Accidents
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 8
No fewer than four instances ot men being injured through falling through the railway bridge near the Rookwood cemetery have occurred within five nights…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 5
Fur some days the Bulloo River has been in high Hood from Adavale to the New South Wales border. George Sheehan, a mailman, after…
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The Sun · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 10
While working on the scaffolding of the new Masonic Hall. Double Bay to-day, Joseph Fleming, aged 35, a bricklayer, living in Station-street,…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 6
The body of Thomas Connolly, a seaman, of Bench Street, Port Melbourne, was discovered on Saturday floating in the bay…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 6
Serious injuries were received by Ernest Hellier. a taxi-driver, of Crown Street, Surry Hills, when he fell over a cliff at Coogee early yesterday morning…
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The Sun · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 1
The Ocean Park at Los Angeles, California's greatest amusement playground, was burned, the loss involved being £1,000,000…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 9
Attempting to board a moving train at Penshurst shortly after 4.30 yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Lenora Edwards, of Morehead-street, Waterloo, missed her footing and fell…
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The Sun · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 9
When William Harbon, of Chapman-street, Moore Park, was riding a horse down Bourke-street, yesterday morning, the horse became restive…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 January 1924 · page 10
The city coroner, Mr. Jamieson, yesterday found that George Edward Mattison died on board the steamer Dilkera at Darling Harbour on January 3 from injuries accidentally…
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The Sun · Tuesday 8 January 1924 · page 8
Newcastle holiday-makers who were bathing near Whakatane were carried out to sea by the undertow. Mrs. Arthur Hall was drowned, and the…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 January 1924 · page 10
At about 2.50 p.m. yesterday Robert Hollingsworth, 22, railway porter, residing at Belmore-street, Sutherland, fell from a platform at Darling Harbour, and sustained…
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Evening News · Tuesday 8 January 1924 · page 4
W. Barry. an employes on [?] magoo Station. near Rockley.complained of illness.and was told to lie down. At tea time he was absent…
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