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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1928

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Drowned? Clothes and Suit Case Police Dragging

The Sun · Monday 13 February 1928 · page 5

"I am mad, Corley." A note with this wording was found in one of the pockets of clothes lying on Balmoral wharf this…

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Fell From Train Young Man Injured

Evening News · Monday 13 February 1928 · page 8

CHARLES BEAUMONT, 22. of Petersham-road Marrickville fell from a train between St. Peters and Erakins-ville railway stations to-day…

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Three Injured. Canberra Motor Smash. Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 February 1928 · page 16

Three persons were injured to-day when two motor cars collided near the Hotel Wellington. William Poet or Peetit, an employee of the commission, sustained an injury to the…

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One Killed Five Injured Killara Tragedy Collapse of Earth

Evening News · Monday 13 February 1928 · page 7

ONE man was killed, and five were injured, when the walls of an excavation collapsed at the Killara reservoir late this…

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3 DEAD : 15 Hurt in Motor Accidents Melbourne Week-end Melbourne

Evening News · Monday 13 February 1928 · page 9

MOTOR car and motor cycle accidents were more numerous during the week-end than they have been for some time past. In all three…

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Police Search for Two Hit-run Motorists Three Women Killed in Melbourne Week-end Toll of the Motor in Several States Many Suburban Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 February 1928 · page 5

Three women were killed and a number of other persons seriously injured in motor accidents in Melbourne during the week-end. The police are looking for the driver of a car carrying a…

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Harbour Collision Inquiry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 February 1928 · page 16

A court of marine inquiry into the collision [?] tween the coastal steamer Nambucca and the oil lighter Tiga, which occurred off Goat island on January 12, will be held in the District Court at noon…

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Atholl in Collision

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 14 February 1928 · page 4
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

A cable received by the Sydney Marine Underwriters & Salvage Association states that the steamer Atholl was in collision…

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Bodies Recovered Rose Bay Drowning

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 14 February 1928 · page 1

Water Police, under Constable G. Day, were successful yesterday in recovering the bodies of the remaining victims of Friday's drowning tragedy…

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Children Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 February 1928 · page 6

When Peggy Nash, aged 10 years, of Palmerstreet, city, and Audrey Isaacs, aged 2 years, of Bourke-street, city, were attempting to cross William-street yesterday morning, they…

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"Callousness" Cabramatta Fatality Better Lights Wanted

The Sun · Tuesday 14 February 1928 · page 18

Cabra Vale Council last night decided, in view of certain evidence given at the inquest on the death of a man and a woman who were run down by…

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Collision with Car Tram Traffic Blocked

The Sun · Tuesday 14 February 1928 · page 14

Tram traffic in Castlereagh-street was blocked for half an hour from 10.15 o'clock this morning, when a tram and a motor car collided near…

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Woman's Throat Out by Flying Glass. Remarkable Fatality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 February 1928 · page 11

A woman whose identity is at present unknown, met her death in peculiar circumstances late last night. She was riding in a sidear attached to a…

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Two Men Drowned. in Western Australia. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 February 1928 · page 12

Two cousins named Charles Byfield, 4[?], labourer, of Mahogany Creek, and Herbert Byfield, 22, horse driver, of Mundaring, were drowned in Darkan River, nine miles from…

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Fatally Injured. Railway Employee. Falls Beneath Train

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 February 1928 · page 12

Three hours after he had been severely injured by a train, several carriages of which passed over his body, Roy Tait, aged 32, ticket examiner, employed by the Railway…

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Fatally Injured Railway Employee Falls Beneath Train

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 14 February 1928 · page 6

Three hours after he had been severely injured by a train, several carriages of which passed over his body, Roy Tate, aged 32, ticket examiner, employed by…

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Fall of Earth. Workmen Overwhelmed. One Dead; Four Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 February 1928 · page 11

One man was killed and four others were injured into yesterday afternoon, "when on embankment of earth, at the site of the Water Board's now reservoir at Killara, collapsed…

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Bebe Daniels Injured Star Now in Hospital Pasadena (Cal.)

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 14 February 1928 · page 1

BEBE DANIELS, the famous nim actress, was severely injured yesterday while taking part in the production of a new film…

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