FAMILY WIPED OUT
QUEENSLAND FARM TRAGEDY.
BODIES IN BURNT HOUSE. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Brisbane, July 22. Five persons lost their lives in a ghastly tragedy on an isolated dairy farm in the hills at Stoneleigh. Their house was burnt down and the charred bodies of the victims were found heaped together among the rU, nfe victims were: V. Hawkes, aged 36, owner of the property; his wife, Florence, aged 32, their son and daughter aged eight and two respectively, and C. Eracher, aged 75, father of Mrs Hawkes. Bullet wounds were discovered on Hawkes, his wife and one child. Hawkes recently had been suffering from insomnia. He was badly gassed and shell-shocked at the war.
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Southland Times, Issue 25343, 23 July 1935, Page 7
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