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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1930

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Find Causes Accident Prevention Analysis Would Help

The Sun · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 15

Though the increase in casualties in 1929 due to motor accidents may be blamed, vaguely to the greater number of vehicles on the roads and the same…

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Curious Accident

The Sun · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 9

ALBURY, Friday. -- Elizabeth Eadon, who conducts a cafe in Wodonga, was the victim of an unusual accident. She was removing a bottle of hop beer…

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Hurstville Street Accidents

The Propeller · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 7

Two women were injured by motor cycles at Hurstville last Friday. While crossing Belmore Road, Ada Willis, of…

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Dreadful Accident Girl Kicked by Horse

The Biz · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 1

While playing in a paddock with her younger brother, near her mother's home on Monday evening, Bettie Marshall, 6 years of age, of…

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Motor Accident

The Biz · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 4

What might have been a serious accident, occurred at Wetherill Park on Saturday last, when, owing to failure of the steering gear, a motor…

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Motor Accident. Man Seriously Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 21

As the result of a collision between two motor cars in Port Hacking-road last night Ernest Graham, 35, of Henderson-road, Alexandra, received a fiacture of the skull. He…

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Pensioner Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 12

Joseph Klstell, a pensioner, of Kavenaghstreet, Concord West slipped while walking along the Guildford railway platform and tell heavily on to the railway…

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Cyclist Injured

Evening News · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 5

Alfred Smith, 41, of Francis-street, Bondi, was riding a motor cycle along Moore Park-road, Paddington, early today, when he struck sheep of dirt near…

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Interstate News Fatal Collision

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 4

Frank Baker, of Burnley (Vic), was killed In n collision between a motor cycle mid a motor car at Wangaratta on Monday…

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Injured Miner. Threatened in Hospital

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 18

The Minister for Mines (Mr Weaver) yesterday directed attention to the treatment by members of the hospital committee of a miner from Rothbury colliery, who had been…

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Jockey Injured in Track Fall

The Sun · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 6

While riding an unnamed Piastre gelding work at Randwick this morning, the apprentice, K. Hasler received a nasty fall. The horse tripped…

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For Hat Man Nearly Drowned Canal Rescue

The Sun · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 7

Losing his hat, while crossing a bridge over the Leichhardt canal, this afternoon, Frederick Charles Lucas, 47, laborer, of…

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Boy Nearly Drowned. in Puddle of Water

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 21

Involved in a remarkable accident in Parkroad, Auburn, yesterday afternoon, a nineyear-old schoolboy was nearly drowned in a puddle of water lying a few inches deep on…

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Boy Drowned Waded After Bird Leeton

Evening News · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 1

A WHITE crane, which he had shot cost William Joseph Bowes, a Barnardo boy, his life. He waded into Hay Canal, near Leeton, to recover the bird,…

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Gun Accident

Nepean Times · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 5

Mrs Stevens, of Plumption, was brought to Nepean District Hospital on Thursday, by Nepean Hawkesbury Ambulance, suffering from shot wounds…

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Shooting Accident. In Leichhardt Street. Youth in Critical Condition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 21

John Stanley, l8, of Styles-street, Leichhardt, was admitted to Lewisham Hospital last night with a bullet wound in his chest. He is in a critical condition…

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Shooting Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 21

Jack Stanley, aged about 19 years, of Styles-street, Leichhardt, was admitted to the Lewisham Hospital at a late hour last night suffering from the effects of a bullet wound in…

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Is Execution An Accidental Death ? CHICAGO

The Sun · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 1

Harry Diamond was executed in 1926 for the murder of his wife. His parents, reading his insurance policy came upon a provision pledging…

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"Accidental" Death of Executed Man Wife-killer's Insurance Parents Claim Double Indemnity He Fought to Live Chicago

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 4

Reading the insurance policy of their son Harry, who was executed in 1926 for murdering his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Diamond…

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Three Believed Drowned Cruiser Capsizes PERTH

Sunday Times · Sunday 26 January 1930 · page 3

THREE men are believed to have been drowned as the result of the capsizing of the 22ft cruiser Wattle, which left Fremantle with a party of four at 11…

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