BADLY MUTILATED.
AERODROME FATALITY VICTIMS. (United Press Association—Copyright.) SYDNEY, February 7. Th.e victims of the aerodrome fatality at Swansea aerodrome, Launceston, where a bomber dashed into a crowd, were Mrs Louisa Cotton (not Collon), aged 51, and her daughter Jean, aged 17. They were members of a wellknown pastoralist family on the East Coast of Tasmania. Both were terribly mutilated by the undercarriage of the aeroplane. Four persons saved their lives by falling flat on the ground until the ’plane cleared them. Mrs Cotton’s husband was an eye-witness of the tragedy.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 100, 8 February 1936, Page 5
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