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  2. Accidents and Crimes!

    Forty or fifty passengers on the Bulimba ferry motor launch had a nerve-racking experience on Saturday morning. At least, one ...

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  3. A SHOT IN THE NIGHT

    A miscellaneous collection of goods, including tobacco, cigarettes, and fruit, and tools alleged to be a burglar's kit are held at Roma Street police station ...

    Article : 175 words
  4. BOY SUFFOCATED

    Alan Zackariah Skyring, aged 14½ years, was buried by [?] fall of sand from, the bank of Kedron Brook at Alderley on December 9 and was ...

    Article : 150 words
  5. YOUNG MAN -DROWNED

    The body of a young man was [?] in the river about 5 p.m. on Saturd[?] in an advanced state, of decomposit[?]. The inquest showed that death [?] ...

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  6. FOUND IN THE BUSH

    After having been lost in the bush near Langlo Crossing, in the Charleville district, for over 24 hours, Bridget Wessell, who left her home at Box ...

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  7. SOUTHSIDE SHOOTING

    At the criminal sittings of the Supreme Court Chief Justice Blair on Dec. 9 passed sentence on Harry Young, who on the previous day was found ...

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  8. IN ROCKHAMPTON

    An accident occurred shortly a[?] midday yesterday, when some [?] were amusing, themselves by firing [?] a target at Lake's Creek. Joseph ...

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  9. FATAL SPEEDWAY ACCIDENT

    Hurtling along the track at 40 miles an hour, W. J. Simpson, who was taking part in the motor cycle teams race at Woree Speedway on Saturday ...

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  10. TRAGEDY IN ADELAIDE

    At Enfield, near Adelaide, yesterday morning, Alfred Benson (61), a retired butcher, shot his wife, Martha Gare Benson (65). and after twice ...

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  11. CAIRNS YOUTH SHOT

    The Ambulance Brigade received a call to attend Robert Landesman (18), who was suffering from a bullet wound in the head, believed to have ...

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  12. MOTORDROME SMASH

    A sensational crash occurred in the final of the sidecar handicap at the Melbourne Motordrome on Saturday night, while the machines were ...

    Article : 159 words
  13. EXPLOSION IN SYDNEY

    An attempt was made last night to blow up the premises of Frederick Clarke, a bootmaker and repairer, of Parramatta Road, Concord. The charge ...

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  14. OVERCOME BY SMOKE

    The death has occurred of a well known farmer in the Hawkin's Creek district, Mr. Giovanni Volpi. With neighbouring farmers and a gang the ...

    Article : 98 words
  15. TICK POISONING

    Following the case of a farmer [?] the Byron Bay District, who died from poison which a tick had lodged in his ear, comes the report of the death from ...

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  16. BIG FIRE AT PORT P1RIE

    Six shops at Solomontown, a suburb of Port Pirie, caught fire on Saturday, afternoon. An effort was made to extinguish, the flames ...

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  17. DAZZLED BY HEADLIGHTS

    Dazzled by the headlights of an approaching car on the Point Nepean Road late on Saturday night, Mr. Hawkes, of Maribyrnong Road, ...

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  18. GIRL ROBBED OF £118

    Yesterday afternoon Grace J Holman (19), a clerk employed at Fitzroy, was held up by a man and robbed of £118 which she had drawn from the bank for ...

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  19. MILKMAN ELECTROCUTED

    John Bates (40, married) was delivering mills when his horse fell. On getting out of the cart he found a wire lying across the road, and he ...

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  20. FIVE PERSONS INJURED

    A car driven by Leslie J. Galley (32), of Norton Street, Ashfleld, was rounding a sharp curve in Liverpool Road. near Warwick Farm, last night, when ...

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  21. GIRL DROWNED

    Willie Joan Dorothy Reynold, nearly four years old, the daughter of Mr. Edward Reynold, of Bacon Street. Grafton, was playing with two ...

    Article : 109 words
  22. FATAL ACCIDENT

    A man who has not yet been identified was killed and a woman terribly injured when a motor cycle collided with a car in Marine Parade, St. ...

    Article : 157 words
  23. OLD MAN DROWNED v

    A drowning accident occurred shortly before 10.o'clock yesterday morning, at the duckboards leading from the lower end of Victoria Street to the beach. ...

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  24. TERRIBLE TRAGEDY

    "For God's sake send for the police. A note in these terms was found in a can by a milkman when he called at the house of William Alexander Foster, ...

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  25. DROWNING AT MACKAY

    A young man, J. H. C. Beckenham (20), who arrived the previous day from Sydney, on transfer to the Mackay branch of the Primary Producers' ...

    Article : 190 words
  26. PARK MURDER

    A plea or insanity was entered on behalf of Sidney Goulter, who gave no evidence to-day when tried for the murder of Constance Oliver in ...

    Article : 318 words
  27. BRIDGEWATER MURDER

    Although [?] people [?] [?] tioned for the reprieve of William Haines, he is to be executed on Friday for the murder of Nellie Devina ...

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  28. RUN DOWN BY TRAIN

    Two boys, John Dewhurst (3), of Herbert Street, Albert Park, and Bertram Wagstaff (4), of Mills Street, Albert Park, were run down by an ...

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  29. FALL FROM BRIDGE

    Nathaniel Swandells, also known as Edward McNeill (22), fell 60 feet from the Milson's Point section of the harbour bridge yesterday afternoon, ...

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  30. WOMAN KILLED

    A woman was killed and her husband and son seriously injured in a collision at Canberra on Sunday between a motor coach and a motor car, ...

    Article : 124 words
  31. STORY OF A JOY RIDE

    Police reports [?] disclose the story of an extraordinary joy-ride. It is alleged that a party of men stole a motor car at Adelaide and drove it ...

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  32. ACCIDENT TO ZOUBKOFF

    Alexander Zoubkoff, husband of Princess Victoria, sister of the ex-Kaiser, was riding a motor cycle when it went wrong and Zoubkoff violently collided ...

    Article : 160 words
  33. ENGINE DERAILED

    Stones which were jammed between the rails at South Geelong Junction almost caused the wreck of the "Geelong Flyer" on Saturday. The engine left the ...

    Article : 60 words
  34. KILLED BY LIGHTNING

    Percy Lyons, a young farmer, was found dead on some land that he was cultivating on the Waterfall Estate at Triholm, near Korumburra. It is ...

    Article : 97 words
  35. ISLANDS MASSACRE

    Six natives, principals in the Gaubalcana massacre last February, were executed by hanging on Saturday in Tulagi gaol. ...

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  36. TRAGEDY AT WEDDING

    A guest at a wedding feast in a village near Vilna, Poland, brought a shell which he had found on a nearby battlefield. He started to ...

    Article : 43 words
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