TERRIBLE CRIME
TWO WOMEN MURDERED A SLUM TRAGEDY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright Australian ana N.Z. Press Association. SYDNEY, September B>. A tragedy occurred at Erskineville, where the bodies of two women witli their throats fatally cut and a man with a gash in his throat were discovered in a bouse. Tho women were Ellen Cox, aged sixty-two, and her daughter, Ethel Galotta, thirty-two, and the man was Thomas Hawthorne. A bloodstained razor and knife and indications of a struggle showed that tho tragedy took place during the night. Hawthorne was treated in hospital and removed to a reception house.
Tho murder occurred in a squalid house in a slum area. As an illustration of the viciousness of tho killing a parrot and a canary were also killed. Both tho women fiercely struggled with the murderer. Hawthorne was previously an inmate of a mental hospital.
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Evening Star, Issue 19352, 11 September 1926, Page 3
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143TERRIBLE CRIME Evening Star, Issue 19352, 11 September 1926, Page 3
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