PERTH, Tuesday: A hotel useful reached for a switch to start an electric pump in a flooded cellar today and fell dead. He was Sydney George McGrath, 42, of Ye Olde Narrogin Inn, Armadale (WA). Licensee William Gaynor told police he… Read More ›
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Fall down a cellar
AN OLD MAN’S DEATH ADELAIDE, Jan. 26. James Barber, of Woodville, to-day accidentally fell down an open trap door, which led into a cellar at the Buck’s Head Hotel, at Stepney, and fractured his skull. He died soon afterwards (after… Read More ›
Watch those pub cellars
Fatal Fall Down Cellar John Healy, aged about 50, a labourer by occupation, fell down the cellar of the Trades Union Hotel, Harbour-street:, city, this morning and broke his neck. It is said that he had an altercation with two women just prior to… Read More ›
Fatal fall down a hotel cellar
An inquest was held at the City Coroner’s Court concerning the death of Michael Norris, 56, late licensee of the Port Jackson Hotel,George-street North, which occurred at St. Vincent’s Private Hospital on Sunday last, the result of injuries sustained through falling down a cellar… Read More ›