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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

3,731 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 187

Boy's Unusual Accident Struck After A Fall

The Sun · Saturday 16 January 1937 · page 5

Arthur Hamilton, 14, of Niblick- street, Arncliffe, was injured in an unusual manner on the Cook's River Bridge last night…

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Men Hurt in Similar Accidents

The Labor Daily · Saturday 16 January 1937 · page 7

Maxwell Joseph Harris, 32, of Tango Avenue, Dee Why, was injured when his bicycle struck a stone and pitohed him to the roadway in…

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Left In Park After Accident Alleges Boy in Court Youth Is To Stand His Trial City Case

The Labor Daily · Saturday 16 January 1937 · page 1

HOW he had been knocked down by a car in Elizabeth Street, City, on the night of December 12, and taken to Moore Park and left…

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Car Hits Pole, Three Men Injured

The Sun · Sunday 17 January 1937 · page 3

Three men were injured when a car crashed into a pole in Mitchell-road, Alexandria, yesterday…

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Two Women, Two Men Hurt Cars in Collision at Newport

The Sun · Sunday 17 January 1937 · page 7

When two cars collided in Barrenjoey-road, Newport, last night, two women and two men were injured. S. Holburn, an Eastern Suburbs…

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Horse Killed In Race Jockeys Injured Two Spectacular Falls Had Big Crowd on Its Toes at Canterbury

The Sun · Sunday 17 January 1937 · page 19

Rolling in from the whip Sine Cera was the innocent cause of a mishap at Canterbury yesterday which cost the life of Roma, caused slight injuries to her jockey. A. Ward, and…

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Wet Weather Accidents

Truth · Sunday 17 January 1937 · page 15

WET weather caused many accidents last night, and the following were treated at Sydney Hospital: Alfred Goodman, 33, and his wife…

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Newcastle Accidents Newcastle

Truth · Sunday 17 January 1937 · page 15

ALLEGED to have been struck by a hit-run motorist at the corner of Station-street and Turton-road, Mayfield, to-night, William Flett (17),…

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How Father Almost Saved Son Ex-Convict Surrenders For Questioning In Kidnap-Murder Case Lorry Accident That Scared Kidnappers Away Vancouver

The Sun · Sunday 17 January 1937 · page 1

FRED HAYNES, AN EX-CONVICT, HAS SURRENDERED VOLUNTARILY TO THE TACOMA (WASH.) POLICE FOR QUESTIONING IN THE CHARLES MATTSON KIDNAP MURDER…

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Drowned Beside Her Friends

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 1

IN the presence of hundreds of bathers and within an arm's length of two girl friends, Daisy Woods, 18, of Collins Street,…

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Girl Is Drowned In Baths

The Labor Daily · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 1

DAISY KATHARINE WOODS. 18, of Collins Street, Alexandria, was drowned in the Brighton-le- Sands Baths about midday yesterday…

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Girl Drowned in Seaside Baths

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 10

Daisy Woods, l8, of Collins-street, Alexandria, was drowned when swimming in the municipal baths at Brighton-le-sands yesterday afternoon…

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Four Flung Into Harbor Boats in Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 2

When a speed boat came into collision with the dinghy Ivy, off Fort Macquarie, yesterday, the dinghy was capsized and its crew of four thrown…

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Horse Killed. Jockey Injured. Mishaps at Canterbury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 13

Two horses fell at Canterbury Park on Saturday. The three-year-old filly Roma died on the course shortly after her fall from internal haemorrhage. Her rider, A. Ward,…

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Girl Injured in Road Crash Gosford

The Labor Daily · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 5

Mozely Cohen, a 14-year-old girl of Terrigal, suffered a fractured skull and concussion yesterday when she fell from a bicycle on the…

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Bodies Found in Death-clasp Two Sisters Drowned In River BOOROWA

The Sun · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 12

Dorothy, 11, and Patricia, 9. daughters of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Harpley, were drowned In the Boorowa River late on Saturday afternoon…

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Struck on Head by Stone Aged Man Seriously Injured Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 5

Struck on the head by a stone alleged to have been thrown by an insane man near his home at Fassifern yesterday, George Packer, 70,…

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14 Injured in Smash Lorry Overturns And Hits Tree YOUNG

The Sun · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 1

Fourteen people, including the whole of the Thuddungra second grade cricket team, were taken to hospital at Young yesterday, as the result…

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Broke Away After Three Hours Railway Trucks in Fatal Collision "Evidence Is Very Peculiar"

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 4

Evidence that shortly before four trucks were involved in a fatal collision at Clyde Railway Yards on December 22, an unknown man was seen apparently braking them was a feature of the inquiry concluded by the district coroner (Mr. G. R. Williams) on Friday…

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Motor Accidents. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 4

Sir,—Pedestrians claim that the majority of motor casualties are due to careless drivers. To-day, I saw an elderly man walk to the middle of the road conning a notebook. He…

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