FAMILY TRAGEDY
FIVE PERSONS LOSE LIVES. BULLET WOUNDS IN THREE. INCINERATED IN A FARMHOUSE. (United Press AsoOdlMion —Copyright? (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) * BRISBANE 1 , This Day. Five persons lost their lives in a tragedy on an isolated dairy farm in the- hills at Stoneleigh. A house was burnt down and) the charred bodies of the victims were found heaped together among the ruins. The victims were: Y. Hawkes, aged 36, owner of the property; his wife, Florence, aged 32; their son and daughter, aged eight and two respectively, and C. Erbacher, aged 75, father of Mrs Hawkes. Bullet wounds were' discovered on Hawkes, his wife and one child. Hawkes had recently been suffering from insomniial. He was badly gassed and shell-shocked at the war.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 238, 22 July 1935, Page 5
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