GHASTLY FARM TRAGEDY
LOSS OF FIVE LIVES CHARRED BODIES IN RUINS BULLET WOUNDS IN THREE (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received July 22, 11 a.m.) BRISBANE, July 22. Five persons lost their lives in a ghastly tragedy on art isolated dairy farm in the hills at Stoneleigh. The house was burnt down and the charred bodies of the victims were found heaped together among the ruins. The victims were: V. Hawkes, aged 3(5, the owner of the property; his wife, Florence, aged 32; their son and daughter, aged eight and two respectively, and G. Erbacher, aged 75, father of Mrs. Hawkes. Bullet wounds were discovered on ; Hawkes- and his wife and one child.
Hawkes recently had been suffering from insomnia. He was badly gassed and shell-shocked at the Great War.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18764, 22 July 1935, Page 7
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130GHASTLY FARM TRAGEDY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18764, 22 July 1935, Page 7
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