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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

4,733 stories in Sydney's papers · page 42 of 237

Sutcliffe's Injured Shoulder May Not Play in Test Melbourne

The Sun · Wednesday 27 February 1929 · page 11

Sutcliffe might not be able to play in the Fifth Test, as his shoulder, which he hurt in Sydney when throwing a ball, is still troubling him. He…

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200 Children in Crash Two Trams Bump Only Five Are Injured Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 27 February 1929 · page 1

An electric tram, containing 100 school children, ran into the rear of a standing tram containing a similar number of children in St. Kilda St…

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Case Fails Against Jockey J. Pike Motor Accident Intoxication Story

Evening News · Wednesday 27 February 1929 · page 9

TAMES PIKE, 36, jockey, was acquitted at the Central Court to-day on a charge of having driven a motor car…

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Peculiar Accident. Katoomba

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 February 1929 · page 18

Mrs. M. Downie, a visitor from Bondi, has been admitted to the Anzac Memorial Hospital, Katoomba, suffering from severed tendons of the wrist. Mrs. Downie was…

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Saved From Drowning. Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 February 1929 · page 12

Prompt action on the part of Leslie Leggett saved the life of Elleen Mccullum, aged 14 years. With some younger children she was bathing in the Wollondilly river, and, getting…

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Fatal Collision Car and Motor-Cycle

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 28 February 1929 · page 10

About 1.20 a.m. on Saturday, Woodville-road, Granville, was the scene of a collision between a motor car driven by J. McCarthy, of Parramatta, and a…

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Dumb Man Assaulted Brutally Injured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 28 February 1929 · page 3

A deaf and dumb timber-worker, A. Hull, of Auburn, was set upon and kicked in a most brutal fashion while going home through Wentworth Park on…

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"My Last Dip" Said Shark Victim Maroubra Fatality

Evening News · Thursday 28 February 1929 · page 8

"COME on i, Dick: I am going to have my last dip," said Allan Bruce Butcher, 17, just before he was fatally attacked by a shark at…

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Youth Injured. Leg Pierced by Shaft

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 February 1929 · page 12

Richard Manning, 16, an apprentice, of Tennyson-street, Gladesville, was severely injured at 5 25 p.m. yesterday. The tram in which he was travelling across the Iron Cove…

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Youth Killed Riding on Pillion Collision with Car

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 28 February 1929 · page 2

Shortly after his admission to Parramatta District Hospital, James Alderson, 19, of Guildford, who had been knocked down by a motor car at…

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Tripped in Tram Injured in Hospital Q'land Judge Dead Brisbane, Thursday. BATHURST

Evening News · Thursday 28 February 1929 · page 5

MR. JUSTICE STUNN, who two weeks ago was sworn in as a member of the Queensland Supreme Court Bench, died in St. Martin's Hospital Lovell Ewers, 25, was installing a wireless set at the District Hospital when he fell from a ladder. He suffered a fracture of one arm, and was admitted to…

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On the Spot Hospital Accident Bathurst

The Sun · Thursday 28 February 1929 · page 17

Lovell Evans, 25, of Sydney fell a long way, but did not have far to go for treatment. While engaged by installing wireless…

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Killed by Car Judge of Two Weeks Peculiar Accident Brisbane

The Sun · Thursday 28 February 1929 · page 15

Mr. Justice Stumm, who was sworn in as a judge of the Supreme Court only two weeks, ago in succession to the late Mr. Justice Woolcoek, was…

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Two Gun Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 February 1929 · page 19

WEE WAA, Wednesday. -- While out shooting yesterday with a party in a lorry, Edward Hornet lifted his gun from the vehicle when it accidentally…

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Brothers Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 March 1929 · page 3

HOBART, Thursday.--Two brothers, Allan and Keith Pearce, aged 11 and 8 years, respectively, of Glenorchy, are believed to have been drowned in the…

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Drowning Accident at Hume Weir. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 March 1929 · page 14

A young Englishman, John Kebblewaite, was drowned in the Murray River near the Hume Reservoir yesterday evening. He went to paddle in the water and fell into a deep hole…

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Good Samaritan Injured

The Propeller · Friday 1 March 1929 · page 3

Mr. B. Blackburn, of Baker Street, Oatley, a member of the Hurstville Bowing Club, was injured last Monday on a mountain road while attempting to…

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Lorry Overturns. Man Killed. Another Seriously Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 March 1929 · page 13

A motor lorry which was travelling along Parramatta-road Lidcombe late last night, ran off the roadway at a sharp bend collided with a pole and overturned…

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Events of the Day News Items of Interest Fatal Collision

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 March 1929 · page 4

When a motor-car, and motor-cycle collided near Hazelbrook last week, Bramwell Vince, need eighteen years, of Croydon, was fatally injured…

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Country News and Personal Notes Companions Helpless Young Englishman Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 March 1929 · page 20

ALBURY, Thursday.--A young Englishman, John Kebblewaite, was drowned in the Murray River near the Hume Reservoir yesterday…

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