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Accidents, 1937

3,731 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 187

Death of Film Writer Accidental Shooting Is Official Theory Los Angeles

The Sun · Sunday 28 February 1937 · page 7

Authorities expect that the inquest on the well-know film writer, Humphrey Pearson, will show that be was shot accidentally when a gun…

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Minister's Car In Collision with Tram

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 March 1937 · page 11

The Minister for Defence (Sir Archdale Parkhill) and Lady Parkhill escaped injury when a motor car in which they were travelling was struck by a tram in Anzae-parade,…

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Show Rider Injured. Adaminaby

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 March 1937 · page 6

In a hunting contest at the show yesterday, Lionel Kennedy, son of Councillor Kennedy, of Adaminaby, was injured. His horse fell at a jump, throwing him. and falling on him…

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Fatally Injured In Lorry Capsize

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 1 March 1937 · page 7

MAITLAND, Sunday.--A verdict of accidental death was returned by the District Coroner, .Mr. Carr-Boyd. at Maitland Court House yesterday, after…

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Motor Cyclist Injured. Orange

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 March 1937 · page 6

Eric Moore, of St. Michael's Flats, Moore Park-road, Paddington, who had ridden as far as Molong on Saturday in a motor cycle reliability test, decided to withdraw and…

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Motor-cyclist Injured Bathurst

The Labor Daily · Monday 1 March 1937 · page 8

Eric Moore, 35, of Paddington, sustained a double compound fracture of the right leg when a motor cycle on which he was competing in the…

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One-armed Man Rescues Boy from Drowning MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 March 1937 · page 9

Although he lost one of his arms at the elbow in the war, Mr. Fry, of Eglinton-street, Kew, dived into the Yarra at Kew on Saturday afternoon and rescued Richard Clarke, aged…

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Surfers Ran for Blue Bag Others Seriously Injured By Dumpers BLUEBOTTLES

The Labor Daily · Monday 1 March 1937 · page 5

WHILE only a few minor rescues were effected on Sydney beaches yesterday, three bathers were injured through being caught in dumpers…

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Gas Bombs Empty Six Theatres. Labour Trouble on Broadway. 27 Patrons Injured. New York, Feb. 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 March 1937 · page 9

Tear gas and stench bombs, operated by timing devices, were exploded almost simultaneously in six cinema theatres on Broadway…

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Wollongong Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 1 March 1937 · page 7

WOLLONGONG, Sunday.--Two men were injured, and admitted to Wollongong District Hospital, this afternoon, as the result of accidents in…

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Wollongong Accidents. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 March 1937 · page 6

Harry Herd, of Greenacre-road, Wollongong, was practically scalped when he was knocked down by a motor car in Crown-street, Wollongong, to-day. He was admitted to…

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Motor Accidents. Three Young Men in Collisions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 March 1937 · page 10

Three young men were admitted to Canterbury Hospital yesterday after their motor cycles had come into collision with motor cars, George Veringer, 20, and John Marshall, 20,…

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Shiftman Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 4

CESSNOCK, Monday.--Federick Brown, a shiftman at Aberdare Central Colliery, who was struck by a falling prop at work today, received…

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Three Drowned Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 10

The opening of the Victorian duck shooting season to-day was marked by three tragedies Sydney Wright was found drowned in 15 inches of water…

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Conductor Critically Injured

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 3

SYDNEY.—— Probationary Conductor William Daniel, of Leichhardt, was critically injured on Thursday when struck by a tram…

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Workmen Are Injured

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 5

A WORKMAN who was struck on the head by a block and tackle in a shaft at Matraville, and another who crashed down a lift well…

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Foreleg Injured Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 10

Casar, owned by Sir Colin Stephen had pus taken from his foreleg to-day. The horse showed an Improvement late to-night. It is claimed that [?]…

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Injured Man Hauled Up Shaft on Stretcher

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 7

A STRETCHER lowered by block and tackle was used yesterday to rescue James Fraser, 59, of Australia Street, Matraville, when he fell down a 20ft. shaft, at the Australian Paper Mills, Botany…

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Injured Boy in Park Driver Acquitted Of Charge

The Sun · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 10

Two hours after a boy of 10 years had been knocked down by a motor car at the corner of Elizabeth and Bathurst streets, city, he was found…

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Stinson Drama: No Rush Operation Proud's Injured Leg Set in Splints in Bush Victims In Charred Plane Unrecognisable Survivors Due on Wednesday Lamington Creek, Tuesday Morning

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 1

BERNARD O REILLY S rescue party contacted the wrecked Stinson plane and' the two survivors, Messrs. J. S. Proud and J. R. Binstead, at 11.30 yesterday morning after a gruelling fight through dense gorge country and drizzling rain and chilling squalls. Dr. N. A. Lawler, one of the rescue party, immediately set Proud's broken leg on his arrival but…

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