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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

4,733 stories in Sydney's papers · page 37 of 237

Young Man is Desperately Injured by Ferocious Shark in Surf at Maroubra! Rift in Lute? in Associated Companies Coal Crisis Dismissal Notices Withheld Newcastle

The Sun · Monday 18 February 1929 · page 9

The New Greta and Wallarah Collieries, both associated companies, have not issued notices of dismissal to their…

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Sergeant Truskett. Well-known Detective. Killed in Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 February 1929 · page 12

Detective-Sergeant Edward Truskett, 53, of Abbott-street, Artarmon, died in the Royal North Shore Hospital last night as the result of injures received in a motor accident…

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Unusual Accident While Shooting. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 February 1929 · page 12

While shooting ducks at Kiera, Raymond Jenkins, 24, of Tangambalanga, met with an accident through his gun exploding. Jenkins was shooting on Kelly's Flat, and it is…

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Top of Head Blown Off Farmer's Death Grim Sequel to Car Accident Perth

The Labor Daily · Monday 18 February 1929 · page 1

WILLIAM THOMAS MAY, a farmer and contractor, of Young's Siding, was found dead at the front door of his house…

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Cricket Chapter of Accidents Strange Inversion of History!

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 February 1929 · page 7

In past days English teams experienced little difficulty in defeating fifteen or sixteen players from an Australian State…

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Boy Drowned Cooma

The Sun · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 18

Twelve-year-old John James Brodie, while bathing in Toolbar Creek with other children on Sunday, got out of his depth and was drowned in a…

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Youth Badly Injured

Evening News · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 9

Reginald Watman, 19. of Park-road. Marrickville. was riding home to lunch on his motor cycle to-day, when he came Into collision with a motor car in…

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Boy Drowned at Cooma. Cooma

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 15

John James Brodie (12) was drowned while bathing in Tollbar Creek. The boy got into a deep hole, and sank before assistance could reach him…

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Fell Off Plank Workmen Drowned Cowra

The Sun · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 14

A man named Leslie Jeffrey, employed on the construction of the Wyangula weir, fell oft a plank into the Lachlan River to-day and was…

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Lodger's Death. Woman Found Injured. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 12

With blood streaming from a cut in his throat, a man staggered from a house in F[?]tzroy-street. Fitzroy, to-night. Neighbours who visited the house found a woman lying…

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Cargo Worth £100,000. a Racehorse Drowned. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 11

It is estimated that the Kanowna's cargo, which was lost, was worth about £100,000. The passengers lost practically all their baggage. Most of them got away with only the…

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Shark Attack. At Maroubra Beach. Youth Terribly Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 11

Allan Butcher, aged 20 years, who was cruelly mauled by a shark while swimming at Maroubra Beach yesterday afternoon, is the third person to be attacked by a shark on the…

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Fair Fight? Two Youths Fined Injured Man of 54

Evening News · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 12

"IT was a fair fight." said Wallace Albert Noel Glanville, 20, and Cee[?]l joseph Manion 21. at Parramatta Court, when they were charged…

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Fatal Motor Car Accident at Chatswood

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 14

Detective-Sergeant Truskett was killed when the car in which he was driving ran over an enbankment, turned a somersault, and crashed into a tree…

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Speedway Accident. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 12

When their machines crashed into a fencs in the final event at the Speedway on Saturday night Bobby Blake, a Sydney rider, and Frank Weldrick, of Lithgow, were thrown…

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Fatal Accident Boy Dies of Tetanus Tamworth

The Sun · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 14

After being admitted to hospital suffering from Tetanus on Saturday, Selwyn Carter 15, son of Mrs. W. H. Carter, of Tamworth, died yesterday…

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Drowned in Lachlan

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 February 1929 · page 19

COWRA, Tuesday.--Leslie Jeffrey, who was helping to build a bridge at Wyangala Dam, fell off a plank while crossing the Lachlan, was swept away…

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Wharflaborer Injured

The Sun · Wednesday 20 February 1929 · page 11

Robert Turner, aged 45, wharf- laborer, of Short-street, Balmain, was struck on the head by some timber that dropped out of a sling, which was…

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Boy Drowned in Abbotsford Baths

Evening News · Wednesday 20 February 1929 · page 5

RONALD CUPIT, 14, of Les-avenue, Five Dock, was drowned at the Abbotsford Baths last night. He left home at 7 p.m., and went to…

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Motor Cyclists Injured. Katoomba

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 February 1929 · page 18

S. Tipper and J. Wadding, of Watt-[?] Regents Park were travelling on a motor cycle and sidecar on the Great Woltern-road, near Leura when the machine left the road, and…

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