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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

3,731 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 187

Stop Press Sergeant Injured

The Labor Daily · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 1

Knocked down by a car in Regent Street, Redfern, early this morning while he had a woman under arrest, Sgt. W. J. Megill,…

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Stop Press Policeman Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 1

Sergeant Magill, of the Redfern police, was knocked down and injured by a car in Regent Street, Redfern, early this morning…

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Tragic Ship Collision Investigated Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 7

THAT at the time the steamer Caradale struck and sank the Kakariki she was travelling at about 11 knots, was suggested by Captain…

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Another Cyclist on Injured List

The Labor Daily · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 7

KENSINGTON junior cycling champion, L. Haverfield, will not start in the State junior sprint championship at the velodrome to-night…

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Drowned in Canoe Capsize Boy's Companions In Heroic Rescue Attempts Lane Cove

The Labor Daily · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 8

HORACE EDWARD FORSYTH, 15, of Belle Street, Naremburn, was drowned in Tambourine Bay, Lane Cove River,…

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Collision Inquiry Captain's Denial to Court "Did Not Leave the Bridge" Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 2

A DENIAL that he had left the bridge of the Caradale from the time his vessel left until it came into collision…

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Injured In Effort To Save Woman Struck by Car Gallantry of Sergeant

The Sun · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 2

SERGEANT William Magill, formerly one of the State's best-known detectives, was critically injured early…

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Policeman Injured. Escorting Woman to Police Station. Knocked Down by Motor Car

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 17

When Sergeant Magill, of the Redfern police, was taking a woman to the Redfern police station early this morning he was knocked down by a motor car at the…

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Brothers Injured

The Sun · Sunday 7 February 1937 · page 2

Two brothers were Injured when a car overturned in Liverpool-road, Cabramatta yesterday. Adrian Drennan, 20, of…

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Child Drowned Brisbane

Truth · Sunday 7 February 1937 · page 16

A NINETEEN months' old child was drowned in about 3 feet of water at Kedron Brook to-day. The tragedy was revealed after a search…

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Two Injured When Car Capsizes

Truth · Sunday 7 February 1937 · page 16

TWO men were injured, one seriously, yesterday afternoon at Cabramatta, when, on the Liverpool-road, a sports car in which they were travelling…

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Woman Injured in Car Crash

The Sun · Sunday 7 February 1937 · page 4

Ethel Patterson, 26, of Welsick-street, Summer Hill, suffered internal injuries early to-day, when two cars collided in Parramatta-road, near St…

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Child Found Drowned in Waterhole Brisbane

The Sun · Sunday 7 February 1937 · page 2

Phillip Healy, aged 20 months, son of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Healy, of West Nundah, was found drowned in a waterhole to-day. The child was…

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Saved Prisoner From Car Sergeant Was Struck and Injured

The Sun · Sunday 7 February 1937 · page 12

Stepping in front of a woman he had arrested to prevent her from being struck by a car, Sergeant William Magill, of Redfern, was knocked…

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Strange Burning Accident Orange

Truth · Sunday 7 February 1937 · page 16

WHEN the liquid chemical he was using to eradicate weeds ignited, Frederick Owers had a foot terribly burned. The boot was burnt off…

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Man Drowned

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 1

James Miller (76), an inmate of the Parramatta Mental Hospital, was drowned in Parramatta River near the goal yesterday afternoon…

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Death in Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 7

WOLLONGONG, Sunday.--Mrs. Mathilda Victoria Pearson (55), of Crown Street, Wollongong, was killed this evening when a lorry, driven by her…

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Chased Hoop: Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 2

BRISBANE, Sunday.--Chasing his hoop yesterday. Philip Healy, aged 20 months, fell into a shallow pool at Nundah formed by the recent rains, and…

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Electrician Injured

The Labor Daily · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 7

While attending to an electric sign at Rockdale on Saturday, Harold Higgerson, 22, of Bradley Street, Randwick, received a shock. In…

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Sergeant Injured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 4

Knocked down by motor-lorry after he had stepped off a bus in Church-street, Parramatta, on Thursday, Sergeant M. Morgan (50) suffered a fractured arm…

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