FARM TRAGEDY
FIVE PEOPLE KILLED CHARRED BODIES SHOW BULLET WOUNDS. Press A**ocjation-—By Telegra|>JiyTCopyrigb' BRISBANE, July 22. (Received July 22, at 10.25 a.m.) Five persons lost their lives in a ghastly 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 V. Hawkes (36), owner of the property, his wife, Florence (32), their son and daughter aged eight and two respectively and C. Erbacher, father of Mrs Hawkes. Bullet wounds were discovered on Hawkes, his wife, and one Child. Hawkes had recently been' suffering from insomnia. He was badly gassed and shell-shocked at the war.
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Evening Star, Issue 22087, 22 July 1935, Page 7
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117FARM TRAGEDY Evening Star, Issue 22087, 22 July 1935, Page 7
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