Four In Family Found Dead
(N^JtA.-Reuter—Copurigitt) HOBART, February 25. A married couple and two children were found dead yesterday in a. house destroyed by fire at Longford, 130 miles north of Hbbart. They were William Hoekins, aged 48, hie wife, Sheila, aged 45, ' toeir daughter, Judith, aged 12, and Morris Howard, Mrs Hoskins’s 17-year-old son by a previous marriage.
Police said Mr Hoekina was found with a gun across his body, and pathologists are investigating toe cause of the deaths.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30066, 26 February 1963, Page 3
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