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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

3,943 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 198

Stars That Will Shine No More Footlights And Films Extensive Losses to Screen Illness, Suicide, And Accident Noted Names End of Karl Dane

The Labor Daily · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 6

DURING 1934 a number of film stars played in their last and most, exacting role--death! Among them probably the best known and most popular was great-hearted Marie Dressier. CONSUMPTION, cancer,…

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Bled to Death Fatal Accident in Butcher's Shop

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 7

Severing the main artery in the right groin when his knife slipped, George William Hayes, 22, butcher, bled to death in less than an hour…

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Complications Fear Condition of Man Shot in Chin Accidentally

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 7

Royal North Shore Hospital doctors are anxiously watching William Pentecost, 26, of Thomas Ave., Chatswood, who was accidentally shot in…

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Collision at Kingswood

Nepean Times · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 1

TWO cars collided at Kingswood on Saturday evening, and Miss Sue Walsh and Miss Louise Walsh, of 10 Guinea Street, West Kogarah,…

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Car Overturns Accident at Wallacia Three Injured

Nepean Times · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 1

The failure of the steeling gear resulted in a car overturing at the foot of a hill near Wallacia on Monday, and three men had…

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Injured at Own Door

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 11

Colin Nicholas, 7, was seriously injured yesterday when he was struck by a car outside his home in Concord Rd., Concord West. Suffering from…

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Casualties. Boy Injured with Spear

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 16

When John Sharp, 14, of Balgowlah-street. Manly, was spearing fish in the lagoon near the Manly golf links yesterday afternoon, he ran several barbs into the calf of a leg…

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Timber Cutter Injured. Nowra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 16

Arthur Hines, a timber cutter, was struck by a falling limb. He suffered fractured ribs, shoulder, and internal injuries. He was taken to Berry Hospital from Milton by…

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Woman's Spine Injured Bathurst

The Labor Daily · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 6

Mr. E. Sweeney. 40, sustained a probable fracture of the spine when she wal thrown from a cart which had crashed into a culvert after the…

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Brothers Drowned. Fell into Irrigation Canal. GRIFFITH

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 16

Two children, Robert Henry Rowley, 9, and his younger brother, David Alexander Rowley, sons of Mr. Robert, Rowley, living in the unemployed camp, wore drowned in the main…

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Girl Suffered Seizure Fell Into Baths and Nearly Drowned Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 5

Suffering from a seizure, Peggy Avery, 8, of Stroud, who is holidaying with her parents at Wang[?]. fell into the Wanal…

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Six Killed and Six Injured Six-storey Building Collapsed Milan

The Labor Daily · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 1

Six workmen wore killed and another six seriously injured when a six-storey building collapsed in Milan to-day…

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Men Accidentally Killed Coroner's Remarks Bathurst

The Labor Daily · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 6

The coroner, Mr. Burgess, to-day, returned a finding of accidental death at the conclusion of the inquiry into the deaths of Ralph Page,…

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Farmer's Death Accidental Rifle Exploded in Rough Country Sofala

The Labor Daily · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 5

"I find that the deceased died from the effects of a gun-shot wound in the forehead accidentally caused," said the Coroner, Mr. J. Crossley, at…

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Speared Own Leg Boy Operated on After Unusual Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 7

John Sharp, 14, of Balgowlah Road, Manly, is in the Manly Hospital, as a result of an unusual accident yesterday…

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A Chapter of Accidents. Temora

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 16

A series of accidents occurred at Temora, W. Keating, while riding on a load of wood, fell, and broke a thigh. He was admitted to hospital. Mrs. Wills, sen., fell down a flight…

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Motor Accidents. Car and Bus Collide. Nowra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 19

A car driven by Mrs. S. E. Wiley, of Nowra, collided with Messrs. Payne and Kelly's motor bus at the intersection of Junction and Osborne streets. The occupants of the car…

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Child's Curious Accident. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 16

John Cogle, 2, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Cogle, of Prince-street, Grafton, last night swallowed a half-inch nickel bolt from a dismantled wireless set. The child was…

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Leaps Ditch Two Car Passengers Injured

The Sun · Sunday 6 January 1935 · page 2

Leaping a ditch six feet wide and four feet deep on the Wollongongroad, Appin, yesterday, a car crashed into a tree and seriously injured…

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A Mother's Pathetic Ordeal at Inquest Two Dead Young Sons Drowning— Poisoning Playmate Criticised

Truth · Sunday 6 January 1935 · page 17

IN less than a month Death's scythe struck twice amid the small family circle of Mrs. Myra Marth Griffiths, of…

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