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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1928

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Escapade of Girls and Youths Ends in Tragedy on Hawkesbury Drowning Follows Hectic Few Weeks Police Make Three Arrests

The Labor Daily · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 5

THE wild escapade of two youths and two young girls, who left Melbourne a few weeks ago in a stolen car, has ended in tragedy, one of their number being drowned, while the others have been arrested. The body of Leslic Chisholm, one of the party, was recovered yesterday…

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Lucky Escape of Passengers Two Injured When Car Overturned Axes Used in Rescue

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 3

When a motorist swerved on the Liverpool Road, Fairfield, to avoid colliding with another vehicle yesterday afternoon, his car went over an…

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Tragic Escapade. One Man Drowned. Sequel to Motor Thefts. "Good-bye; I Am Going for a Swim."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 12

Some of the escapades of two young men and two young girls, who left Melbourne just before Christmas were revealed yesterday, when the police discovered that one of the…

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Greycliffe Inquiry. Marine Court Finding. Tahiti Blamed for the Collision Greycliffe Master Not Culpable. "Speed Limit Should be Investigated."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 11

The Court of Marine Inquiry was crowded on Saturday morning when Mr. Justice Campbell delivered judgment upon the collision between the ferry steamer Greycliffe and the Union Steamship Company's steamer Tahiti…

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Tidal Wave Sweeps London Many Drowned in Sleep Thames Embankment Gives Way Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham Under Water Hurricane at 80 M.P.H. LONDON

The Labor Daily · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 1

FOLLOWING a hurricane--attaining 80 miles an hour in some places--parts of London have been swept by a tidal wave, causing the greatest local disaster in modern times. Eighteen people are known to have been drowned in their beds last…

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Youth Drowned, But Companions Keep Grim Secret Mixed Party Camped on River Bank Sixteen-year-old Girl Reveals that Extra Suit Belonged to Dead Man Mystery Solved in Cell

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 3

Although one of their party had been drowned in the Hawkesbury River earlier in the day, two girls and a youth kept silence. when arrested at Sackville on Saturday, for stealing a motor car…

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Most Serious London Floods Within Living Memory Four Sisters Drowned in Their Beds Pitiful Appeals to "Open the Door" -- Fourteen Lives Lost -- Many Gallant Acts Rooms Filled to the Ceilings

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 4

The London floods were the most sudden and most serious within living memory. They were caused by an abnormally high tide meeting the flood waters of the river…

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Death After Accident

Evening News · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 9

Cecil John Payling, 67, a ship's rigger of Nicholson-street, Balmain, who met with an accident at the Adelaide Steam-ship Company's Dock, Balmain, on…

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Gun Accidents. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 6

Sir,—The proposal that some restriction should be placed upon the use of the socalled pcarlfle is a Very necessnry ope, but it is highly questionable whether such…

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Fatal Accident. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 12

John Ford, aged 23 years, of Mildura, was killed through being thrown from a motor truck on Saturday. His two brothers received slight injuries. John Ford's neck…

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Motor Collision. Four People Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 15

Four people were injured when a motor car and a taxi cab collided late on Sunday night at the intersection of Carrington-street and Belmoro-road, Randwick. They were:—Leach…

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Drowned by Accident Weston

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 5

An inquest was held to-day at Weston into the death of John Dent. 25, a wheeler, who had been employed at Hebburn colliery and who was…

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Saved From Drowning Wagga

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 7

A sensation was caused this afternoon when Mrs. Hicks, who was bathing in an unfrequented part of the Murrumbidgee River, got into…

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Shooting Fatality. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 12

John Nation, 16, died from the effects of gunshot wound below the left shoulder morning. Nation was preparing to shoo[?] eagle, when Henry John Vines, another…

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Hing Fatality. Kurri-kurri

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 12

An inquest was held to-day into the [?] of John Dent (25), who was drowned the Hebburn Colliery dan on December The evidence disclosed that deceased,…

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Mistaken Identity. in Drowning Case. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 15

A remarkable case of mistaken identity occurred following the discovery of the body of a man on the beach at Semaphore. After the body was taken to the morgue it was…

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Wall Collapses. Workman Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 16

Portion of a brick wall which was being demolished collapsed just as the workmen were about to finish, work at a building in Railwaycrescent, Burwood, yesterday…

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Wall Collapses Workman Injured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 2

Portion of a brick wall, which was being demolished, collapsed just as the workmen were about to finish work at a building in Railway-crescent, Burwood,…

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Lord Inchcape His Sailor Days Two Escapes from Drowning

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 4

The first banquet of the Company of Master Mariners was held at Fishmongers Hall, London Bridge, when a message from the King expressing best wishes…

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Taxidriver Is Fined Goulburn Collision Goulburn

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 5

The appearance of Herbert Alexander McKenzie, taxi-driver, at the Goulburn Police Court, where a charge of driving in a manner…

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