The Commissioner of Police received telegram from Georgetown to-day, stating that a police tracker, named Jack, was killed last night at a blacks' camp at ...
Article : 74 wordsOn December 20 George William Bean, a monumental mason, residing at Walsh-street, Southwark, ended his life by jump ing into the River Torrens near the weir, ...
Article : 125 wordsAn inquest was held to-day into the circumstances surrounding the shooting of Sergeant McDonnell at Warren on the evening of December 28 in the main street ...
Article : 175 wordsA moonlight row on the Yarra on Saturday night had a pathetically tragic termination. A party of four, two young women and their, male friends, left ...
Article : 413 wordsWilmott Walmsley (43) married, wail driving a waggon loaded with timber as Rocklea on Saturday, when he fell front the vehicle, with the result that one of the ...
Article : 55 wordsAn accident occurred at Darling Down Race Club meeting at Clifford Park on Saturday. Eleven horses started in the Finchley Plate, and when the field was ...
Article : 73 wordsEarly on Sunday morning Constable Reiley, officer in charge of the Glenelg police station, received information from Mr. John Newbold that a man, whose ...
Article : 169 wordsJames Reardon (38), a gunner in the Royal Australian Garrison Artillery. stationed at Middle Heed, was found by his landlady dead in bed this morning, with a ...
Article : 85 wordsEric Horan, Aged 18, son of the station master at Gingin. on the Midland railway, while out with a holiday riding party, collided with another horseman. The ...
Article : 53 wordsRichard Arnst, the champion sculler, is lying in a private hospital at Manly suffering from the effects of a brutal attack made upon him by some drunken ...
Article : 175 wordsAt the race meeting today a serious accident occurred in the Hurdle Race. Penang fell at the hurdle in front of the grandstand, and the rider, R. Cherrington, ...
Article : 45 wordsA number of voung lads from Brompton went to the Outer Harbor on December 28, and while fishing from the wharf one of them, nine years of age, fell into the ...
Article : 101 wordsA sad fatality happened yesterday at Cottesloe Beach. Miss Ellen Lindsay, a nurse, was preparing a duck for dinner, when her dress caught fire and she was so ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. Thomas Pearce (son of the late Mr. Samuel Pearce, of Lighton), who had been working recently with Messrs. Pearce Bros., of Mount Bryan, was carting a ...
Article : 130 wordsfrom reports received by the police it appears probable that a double or triple fatality has taken place in the Derwent within the last couple of days. There is ...
Article : 180 wordsThe neighborhood of the little township of Come was the scene of an awful drowning accident this morning, when three youths, Edward Ostenfeld, Oscar Mc Alpine, ...
Article : 429 wordsCharles Leach, aged 59 years, a blind man, and father of Mrs. Puller, licensee of the National Hotel. Coleraine, was found dead in a bath at the hotel. He had gone ...
Article : 81 wordsA burning accident befell the infant daughter of Air. Josiah Angove, of Crossroads, this morning. It appears that Mrs. Angove laid the little one, aged 14 months, ...
Article : 123 wordsWhile a motor boat owned by Mr. McDonald was running between Portarlington and Swan Bay late on Friday night a breakage of a pipe caused the stoppage of the ...
Article : 136 wordsA man named Price committed suicide at Sorell yesterday by strangling himseft with a handkerchief. ...
Article : 24 wordsA tragedy involving shooting and poisoning occurred in unusual circumstances in Alexandria Park early this morning. Alice Nordern, a widow, and Robert Lee, a ...
Article : 532 wordsAt Queen's pier to-day a craft Was swamped, and of the occupants six were rescued. The seventh, Eliel Thill, a Noriwegian, sank just as succour was reaching ...
Article : 46 wordsAn old and respected resident, 'Mrs. Emma Rice, came to a sad end during the week. Her body was found in a well in a paddock opposite her residence, on the ...
Article : 215 wordsMr. and Mrs. East and two children were thrown from a buggy whilst returning from the Stawell races through the horse shying and running the vehicle against a fence. ...
Article : 197 wordsOn Friday night a heavy storm struct the Coonamble district. In the town the rain was not heavy, but the lightning was vivid and dangerous. It struck the ...
Article : 278 wordsA shocking tragedy was enacted in a small isolated cottage in West-street, Casino, this afternoon. Mrs. H. Perkins (21) and the step-brother of her husband, ...
Article : 114 wordsMOUNT GAMBIER, Jnuary 1,-Tins morning, at about 9 o'clock, Thos. Byrne, blacksmith, was found lying in his room with a bullet wound in the mouth, and a ...
Article : 96 wordsAn accident, in which several people nearly lost their lives, occurred to-day on the Geelong railway line, about a mie from Newport. Mr. A. Coghill, of Sunshine, ...
Article : 190 wordsThree months ago a new arrival from England presented herself at the Victorian Education Department seeking if position as a teacher. She had nothing ...
Article : 121 wordsAn accident happened recently on the farm of Mr. A. E. Obst. A young man, Charles Obst, had his foot severely crushed. He was turning a corner with a harvester ...
Article : 843 wordsAn accident happened on Sugarloaf Hill, 15 miles on the Mudgee side of Hargraves. A four-horse cordial van, heavily laden with empty bottles, was being driven from ...
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Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954), Sat 6 Jan 1912, Page 41
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