DECLARED INSANE
HAWTHORNE SENT TO ASYLUM. MURDER OF TWO WOMEN. (Rec. 10.40 pm.) Sydney, December 1. Hawthorne was declared insane and ordered to be detained in a criminal lunatic asylum until mentally fit to stand trial. —A. and N.Z. A tragedy occurred at Erskineville on September 10, when the bodies of two women with their throats fatally cut and a man with a gash in his throat were discovered in a house. The women were Ellen Cox, aged 62, and her daughter, Ethel Galetta, aged 32, and the man was Thomas Hawthorne. A blood-stained razor and a knife, and indications of a struggle, showed that the tragedy took place during the night. Hawthorne was treated in a hospital and removed to the reception house. Hawthorne was committed for trial after the Coroner’s inquest, at which a verdict was returned that he murdered Mrs Cox and Mrs Galetta.
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Southland Times, Issue 20042, 2 December 1926, Page 7
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