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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1927

4,885 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 245

Found Drowned Returned Soldier's End

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 2

The District Coroner (Mr. P. S. Poolman) held an inquiry at Liverpool, on Wednesday afternoon, into the circumstances surrounding the death of William…

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Engineers' Bravery Rescue From Drowning Kiama

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 8

Lesile Charlesworth (6), son of Mr. H. Charlesworth, of Kiama, was nearly drowned in Kiama Harbor this morning…

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Two Injured Car Overturns

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 1

Bouncing off the Min Southern-road, after it had bit a rut, a motor car overturned and rolled 30ft. down an incline at Liverpool on Saturday afternoon…

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Would-be Rescuer Drowned MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 7

Cecil Clark (15), of Heyfield was drowned in the Thompson River. Hevfield, this afternoon, while trying to fescue a companion, William Skeels…

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Drowned in Macquarie River. Dubbo

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 12

At Minore, 10 miles from Dubbo, William Duffell, 24, a young Englishman, was drowned in the Macquarie River. He was employed by Mr. A. L. Wright, and with three other young…

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Miners' Ribs Injured Cessnock

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 6

Through a fall of coal in Stanford Merthyr Colliery to-day, Herbert Parsons had his ribs injured…

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Motor-Cycle and Sulky Western-Road Collision

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 1

While riding a motor-cycle along western-road Wentworthville, on Saturday night, Frederick James Eagles, of Augusta-street, Strath[?]ield ran into the back…

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Drowned in Five Minutes DEVONPORT (Tas.)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 11

Ettie Anderson (32) was drowned in the River Mersey while bathing. She was with two others when she got into deep water, and lot go her hold of a…

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Boy Drowned Girl Saves Another LAUNCESTON

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 9

Harold C. Filgate (7) was drowned at Beauty Point when the wash from the steamer Nairana upset a skiff in which he was sitting with Allan Filgate…

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Speedway Fatality. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 8

Sir,—Through sheer ignorance Mr. H. L. Pitt makes a lot of mistakes in his summing up of Mr. Garlick's accident at Maroubra. In the first place, he says the "Alvis" splintered…

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Car Strikes Post. Youth Badly Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 12

Thomas Drury, aged 17 years, of Alexandria-street, Alexandria, was driving a motor car along Enmore-road, Enmore, at 1.20 a.m. yesterday, when the vehicle skidded, and collided…

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Bathers Injured. by Broken Bottles. Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 7

The discovery was made at the week-end of a despicable action. Someone threw broken bottles into the river at favourite swimming beaches. As a result two swimmers received…

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Car Skids and Crashes Two Brothers Injured

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 5

Skidding across the street, a motor car which was being driven along Enmers Road. Enmore, yesterday after, noon crashed against a…

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Cruel Fate Young Englishman Drowned Fiancee on Way Out Dubbo

The Sun · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 20

William Duffell, 24 years, came here from England 16 months ago. He made good. His sweetheart arranged her…

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£20,000 LOST Big Dorrigo Blaze Fireman Injured Dorrigo

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 7

A fire broke out in premises occupied by J. H. Davis and Co., storekeepers, on Sunday night, and before it was extinguished many…

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Black History of a Corner a Week's Accidents

Evening News · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 4

The corner of Young-street and Parramatta-road, Leighhardt, was given the worst of characters at Annandale Council last night…

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Fatal Motor Accident. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 12

At the coroner's inquiry into the death of Archibald Gordon Rankin McLaurln, 39, owner of Tiverton estate, 12 miles from Holbrook, as the result of a motor accident, David…

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Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 9

KIAMA. -- A fortunate rescue took place, at Robertson Basin, Kiama, when Leslie Charlesworth, aged six years, of Bong Bong St., walking at the edge of…

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Warwick Farm Fall Accidental

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 4

The A.J.C. stipendiary stewards yesterday concluded their inquiry into the cause of the fall of Miss Magpie (Phillips) and Aqullae (E. Ellis) in…

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Fatalities and Accidents Knocked From Footboard

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 11

Edgar Eastman, of The Avenue, Randwick, was badly injured yesterday morning, when he was knocked oft a tram in Belmore Road, near Silver…

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