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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

4,733 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 237

Manslaughter Charge. Sequel to Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 January 1929 · page 5

Jack Alfred Potter, aged 30 years, was charged at the Parramatta Police Court yesterday with having feloniously slain Edward Joseph Charles Randall, at Wentworthville…

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Child Drowned. in Shipwright Bay

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 January 1929 · page 9

Joan Newbold, aged 4 years, of Prince's Highway, Tom Ugly's Point, was accidentally drowned in Shipwright Bay, a small inlet near Tom Ugly's Point, yesterday afternoon…

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Italian Immigrant Drowned. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 January 1929 · page 8

An Italian immigrant named Benozzo, employed on Trickey's road construction camp, near Tungamah, was drowned this afternoon. In a dam on Mr. Boyd Bickett's property. He…

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Narrow Escape From Drowning. Tweed Heads

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 January 1929 · page 8

A drowning accident was narrowly averted. in the back channel of the Tweed River yesterday morning by the timely arrival of the occupants of a motor boat. About a dozen…

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Motor Accidents. Lorry Driver Fatally Injured. West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 January 1929 · page 8

Clive Wells, 14, of Dungog, died in hospital from injuries received in a motor accident on Fosterton-road. Wells was on a milk delivery motor when at a turn in the road…

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Little Girl Drowned at Tom Ugly's

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 1 January 1929 · page 8

Little Joan Newbold. 4. strayed from her home in Princes Highway yesterday, and was later found drowned in Shipwright's Buy. Tom Ugly's Point, a…

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One Killed Three Injured Perth

The Sun · Tuesday 1 January 1929 · page 11

The first fatality at Claremont Speedway occurred last night, when B, Perrie, a Yemung rider, who had fallen, was struck on the back near…

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All the Family Was Injured. Maitland

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 1 January 1929 · page 5

While ruling a motor-cycle and side-car along Belmore Road this afternoon George Thoms dairy farmer, of Stroud Road who was accompanied by…

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Boy Injured by Motor Lorry. Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 1 January 1929 · page 5

Edwardson used 7 of [?] Street Mayfield was knocked over by a were are an Maitland Road this afternoon and [?] incurred. He…

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Girl Swept to Sea Treacherous Tide Saved From Drowning for Second Time Coolangatta

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 1 January 1929 · page 1

EDNA ALLEN, 19, a holiday visitor to Coolangatta, from Brisbane, had a narrow escape from death at Currumbin Greek,…

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Youth Drowned Slipped From Rock Vain Rescue Effort Byron Bay

Evening News · Tuesday 1 January 1929 · page 3

ROBERT Harold Henry Slaymaker, 15, was drowned in [?] Creek, despite an effect at rescue by his brother…

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Head-on Smash Car and Lorry Collide Nine Injured Baby Is Terribly Disfigured

The Sun · Tuesday 1 January 1929 · page 11

In a terrific head-on collision between a motor car and a lorry in Campsie this afternoon, nine, persons were…

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Half-drowned Girl Bites Rescuer Struggle in Surf Timely Appearance of Motor Launch Tweed Heads

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 1 January 1929 · page 1

Jessie Helmond, a 13-year-old girl, made a plucky and valiant attempt to save a companion from drowning at Tweed Heads…

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Ten Hurt Motors Crash Lorry and Car Cantbury Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 1 January 1929 · page 4

TEN people were injured when a motor car and a motor lorry came into collision at the intersection of Albert-street…

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Ambulance Kept Busy. Accidents at Lithgow Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 1 January 1929 · page 5

Harold Carr, a schoolbuy from New-castle district, on holiday, fell from a fence on the Municipal Baths, and fractured his forearm. Lithgow…

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Motor Accidents. Seven Persons Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 January 1929 · page 12

The members of two families were seriously injured in a motoring accident nt the intersection of Lincoln-street and Ninth-avenue, Campsie, yesterday…

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Surfing Fatality. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 January 1929 · page 11

James Grove, 36, married, of North Perth, got into difficulties five minutes after be entered the water at a city beach soon after mid-day to-day. He was rescued and taken…

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Found Drowned in Baths

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 January 1929 · page 4

BROKEN HILL, Tuesday.--Howard Mervin Blanks, 13, residing at 214 Newtown Street, left a picnic party to go bathing at the Municipal Baths this…

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Young Woman Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 January 1929 · page 12

Although she is reported to have been fiung through the windscreen of the motor car she was driving yesterday, Joyce Haynes, 27, of Punchbowl-road. Enfield, escaped with cuts…

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Injured by Shattered Windscreen

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 January 1929 · page 16

Hurled against the windscreen of her car when it crashed into another car in Centennial Park yesterday and overturned. Miss Joyce Haynes (27),…

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