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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1936

4,125 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 207

Body in Well Inquiry Accidental, Say Police Wagga

The Labor Daily · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 5

The coroner's inquiry into the death of Jack Conway, 59, a shearers' cook, whose body was found in a well at a hotel at Matong on January 30…

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Black Dies By Spear: Slayer Flees Accident Led to Death Feud

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 1

PERTH, Wednesday.--A Drysdale aboriginal has been killed with a spear and the slayer is in flight from avengers…

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Tram Driver Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 7

While jumping off a tram, at the corner of Ansae Parade and Dacey Avenue, South Kensington, John Egan, tram-driver, 57, of Houston…

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Man Believed Drowned Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 10

Police are dragging the Yarra, following the finding of fishing tackle belonging to Ernest Pilgrim, of Batman Street. North Fitzroy. He left…

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Sisters Are Drowned Brisbane Brick Pit Tragedy Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 5

JEAN OSBORNE, 11, and Marjorie Osborne, 9, her sister, fell into a brick pit containing about 10 feet of water at Enoggera, near Brisbane,…

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Sisters Drowned. One Tries to Save Other. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 10

Two sisters, Marjorie and Jean Osborne, aged 9 and 11 years, respectively, were drowned in a clay pit containing 10 to 20 feet of water at the old Virginia brickworks, Enoggera,…

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Riots in Cairo. Eight Police Injured. CAIRO, Jan. 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 9

Further rioting by students engaged in anti-British demonstrations resulted in eight police being injured…

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Student Riots Eight Police Injured in Cairo Cairo

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 8

Eight police were injured in further student riots…

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Sisters Drowned at Play One Tumbled in Trying to Save the Other

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 9

BRISBANE, Thursday.--Marjorie (9), and Jean Osborne (11), who bad been in the care of their grandparents since babyhood, were drowned…

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M.C.C. Team. Several Players Injured. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 10

The M.C.C. team now has a heavy list of injured. Langridge and Sims have both pulled muscles in the right leg, Lyttelton has a torn muscle in the right leg, Baxter a bad knee,…

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Century By Marks In Shield N.S.W. Lead Batsmen Injured Fine Partnership How Hynes Went

The Sun · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 8

MARKS played splendidly to-day, when New South Wales batted against Queensland at the Sydney Cricket…

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Woman Accidentally Shot. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 10

Miss Hilda Hindmarch is in Portland Hospital suffering from a bullet wound in the knee, as a result of a shooting accident at the home of Mr. W. R. Preece. A house party…

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Man's Memory Returns After Accident. Three Months' Roaming

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 9

The cases of people having lost their mcmoiies, and then in strange circumstances or by coincidence recovered them have been the themes of many fiction writers, and in…

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Accidents

The St George Call · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 2

While William Lovett, 12, of 18 Regent Street, Kogarah, was crossing Prince’s Highway, Rockdale, late on Christmas evening, he was knocked…

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Toll of the Road Few Hurt in Accidents

The Labor Daily · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 5

John Egan, 57, tram driver, of Houston Road, South Kensington, suffered scalp wounds when he was knocked down by a car while…

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Cars in Collision. Berry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 16

While returning to Nowra from a dance at Beny, a car, driven by W. McGulre, came into collision with another car from Nowra, McGuire suffered cuts on his legs and arms,…

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Rider Seriously Injured. Dunedoo

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 16

At the Craboon races a lad, Jack Richards, of Coolah, was thrown from his horse and suffered concussion and severe facial injuries, Richards was admitted to a private hospital…

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Motor Cyclist Injured. Tweed Heads

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 16

William J. Wilkinson, son of Mr. T. R. J. Wilkinson, storekeeper, of Murwillumbah, received a fracture of the left leg at the border gates when the motor cycle he was riding…

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Fatal Collision Man, Child Killed Cycle Hits Lorry

The Sun · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 5

A MAN and child were killed, and John Brough, 50, of Ormond-street, Paddington, was injured this afternoon in a smash at the corner of Anzac-parade and Cleveland Streets, Moore Park…

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Car Over Embankment. Two Boys Injured. Gosford

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 17

A motor car, which was being driven by Mr. Robert Burton from the Macleay River to Tempe, skidded on some loose gravel on the Pacific Highway, near…

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