GHASTLY TRAGEDY
FIVE PEOPLE INCINERATED BULLET WOUNDS IN BODIES (United Press Association) (By Electric To'egraph—Copyright) BRISBANE, July 22. 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. Hawkcs, aged 36, owner of the property; his wife. Florence, aged 62; their son and daughter, aged eight and two respectively, and C. Erbacher father of Mrs Hawkcs. Bullet wounds were discovered on Hawkcs, his wife.
and one child. Hawkes had recently been suffering from insomnia. He was badly gassed and shell-shocked at the
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22630, 23 July 1935, Page 9
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