Horse Impaled. Accident at Perth. PERTH
Jumping sideways near the turn, when running in third position near the rails in the Belmont Plate, at Belmont Park Club's meeting on Saturday. Sweet Devon went over…
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Constables Shot. Pistol Accidentally Discharged. DARWIN
When an automatic pistol, which was being examined at Darwin police headquarters, was accidentally discharged, Constable Ronald Brown, a recently enlisted member of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mysterious Accidents to U.S. Planes. Washington, Feb. 4. (A.A.P.)
A series of accidents to the planes of the aircraft-carrier Ranger (14,500 tons), six of which have crashed or been damaged recently, has prompted an investigation…
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A cow, wandering at night on a badly lighted road, caused the death of Bill Grills, 28, carriage builder, of Duncan Street, Maroubra…
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NEWCASTLE, Monday.--It was stated to-day at Newcastle Quarter Sessions that a man who had been injured in a disturbance outside the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drowned in Saving Horse Orange
Harry Pratt, 24, was drowned in a dam at a station property three miles from Orange today. He was engaged in carting water…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Kept Flames From Injured Man Runs Through Bushfire WOLLONGONG
A man told Bulli Coroner's Court today how he stopped a bushfire from reaching two men who were lying injured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Toll of Road Accidents Newcastle
Eight persons were killed and 151 inqured in 133 road accidents in the northeastern police district during December, according to figures…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Man Badly Hurt in Accident
Thomas Henry Jackson, 34, who lives in an unemployed camp at Brighton-le-Sands, suffered a fractured right leg and severe head…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Woman Driver in Accident Sought
Sergeant Brown, of Kogarah police, would like to contact the woman driver of a car which struck the outstretched arm of a soldier driving a car In the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Collision
William Reilly (50)of Auburn-street, Pitt Row, was a fatally injured when two cars collided at the intersection of Pitt and Railway-streets,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Digger Saved Two From Drowning
In three months Mr. W. Burns, 47, an unemployed returned soldier, has saved two people from drowning. At Mackay (Queensland) he saved a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheeler Injured
CESSNOCK, Tuesday.--Albert Strang, 36, wheeler, had his left hand Jammed when lifting a skip back on to the rails at Aberdare Colliery today. His index…
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ORANGE, Tuesday.--Harry Pratt, 24, single, was drowned in a dam three miles from Orange today when a horse he was attempting to rescue kicked him…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drowning of Boy Wandered Out Of Hospital
A suggestion that an eight-year-old boy who was found dead in the Hawkesbury had been helped out of a pen for…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Man Drowned in Dam. Orange
Harry Pratt, 22, of Orange, was drowned this morning in a dam on Mr. P. C. Weston's Rosedale property. Pratt drove a horse and dray into the dam…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →I.R.A. Bombs. Explosions in Mail Bags. Five Men Injured. London, Feb. 6. (A.A.P.)
Two I.R.A., bomb explosions occurred in mail bags at Euston railway station (London), while they were being loaded from postal vans…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →"Accidental Death" Inquest on Cabramatta Man
At the inquiry into the death of Roy Alfred Hoy. (44), Cabramatta, held by Liverpool District Coroner (Mr. P. S. Pcolman) at Liverpool last Saturday,…
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PORT KEMBLA, Wed. MERVYN ORDELL, 23, single, of Spoonerville, was drowned in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Injured When Car Overturned
When a tyre burst, causing a car to overturn, in Woodstock-avenue, Rooty Hill, last night, Phillip Stlems, 41, of Windsor-road, Rooty Hill, and…
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