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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

3,943 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 198

Into Deep Gully Cart Capsizes; Woman Is Badly Injured

The Sun · Sunday 6 January 1935 · page 2

BATHURST, Saturday.--When a horse shied at two passing cyclists the cart to which it was attached capsized in a deep gully, pinning…

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Stabbed to Death! Wife of Popular Licensee "Accidentally Fell"

Truth · Sunday 6 January 1935 · page 9

A STRANGE crowd milled about the Darlington Hotel at Redfern on New Year's Day talking about the woman who had just been killed— stabbed to death—for she was one of the roost popular figures in the district…

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Woman Killed in Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 January 1935 · page 7

PERTH, Sunday.—A car driven by Ormond Bowyer collided with a loaded motor-truck in the city tonight. Mrs. Letitia Jane Bowyer, 64,…

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Child Drowned Melbourne

The Sun · Monday 7 January 1935 · page 8

While playing with other children on the Yarra bank at Deep Rock today, Donald Tarlton (6½), of Abbotsford, slipped and fell into the river…

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Woman Injured. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1935 · page 8

Mrs. E. Sweeney suffered injuries to her back when she was pinned beneath a sulky which overturned on the Blayney-road. Her husband, who was driving the vehicle, was…

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Race Over Harbor to Accident Ambulance Men Use Speedboat Youth Injured

The Labor Daily · Monday 7 January 1935 · page 5

IN a race to the side of an injured youth, Manly Ambulance men yesterday successfully pleaded with the owner of a speed boat to take…

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Fell From Window Woman Seriously Injured

The Sun · Monday 7 January 1935 · page 1

Mrs. Elizabeth Beaman, 47, of Johnstone-street, Annandale, was leaning out of a window of a hospital in Redfern to-day, when she…

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Youth Drowned. Struggle in the Snowy River. COOMA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1935 · page 8

Owen Henry Foster, 16, labourer, was drowned in the Snowy River yesterday morning. Foster left Boloco station, near Dalgety,…

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Mob Fighting In Redfern Street. One Man Dying. Many Others Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1935 · page 7

One man will probably lose his life, and three others are in hospital with serious injuries, as a result of mob fighting in Botanyroad, Redfern, on Saturday night…

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HAMMERS & Hatchet in Brawl Man's Skull Broken In Street Melee Many Injured

The Labor Daily · Monday 7 January 1935 · page 6

HAMMERS and a tomahawk are said to have been produced during a violent affray on Saturday night at the corner of Henderson…

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Champion Had Eye Injured Lunch And Dawson Cut Even At Leichhardt Fall Apiece

The Labor Daily · Monday 7 January 1935 · page 3

AUSTRALIAN heavyweight wrestling champion Tom Lurich had his left eye closed in his match with Joe Dawson at Leichhardt Stadium…

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Shot Dead In Laneway After Kensington Attack Shop Quarrel Bottle Story Boy Injured

The Sun · Monday 7 January 1935 · page 7

FOLLOWING an attack upon the wife of an Italian fruiterer and her 12-months-old son, in a room…

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Constable Fatally Wounded. Accident with Pistol Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1935 · page 8

While Constable Clyde James Smith was conversing with Constable Alex. Kelly outside the Frankston Post-office shortly after 3 p.m. to-day he was accidentally shot. Smith…

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Motor Accidents. Little Girl Killed. Ballina

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1935 · page 8

After being unconscious for more than 24 hours, the death occurred last night of Nola May Saunders, 4, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. Saunders, of Ballina. Yesterday she…

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Died 16 Days After Accident

The Labor Daily · Monday 7 January 1935 · page 7

As the result of his bicycle coming Into collision with a motor lorry at the corner of Dora and Gordon Streets, Hurstville, on December 21…

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Woman Killed in Car Accident Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Monday 7 January 1935 · page 8

when a car in winch she was a passenger skidded and overturned at Southport last night, Sylvia Pickering, a clerk employed at the…

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Constable Shot Accidentally Sheltering From Rain Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Monday 7 January 1935 · page 5

Constable Clive Smith, 40, was shot dead while sheltering under the verandah of the Davey Street, Frankston, past office, yesterday…

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Children Victims in a Sequence of Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 January 1935 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--A remarkable sequence of accidents to children in the Newcastle district occurred during…

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Drowning Romance in Malted Milk

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 10

A SWORD, and a cloak, and a ha! with a curling plume, are suitable accessories for a young man making verbal love to a lady on a…

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Child Seriously Injured

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 6

George Valentine, 5½, of Cooper Street, Paddington, was knocked down by a motor car in Glenmore Road. Five Ways, yesterday…

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