GHASTLY TRAGEDY
ON LONELY WY FARM FIVE PERSONS LOSE LIVES. Press Association Electric Telegraph Copyright (Received Monday, 10.25 a.m.) BRISBANE, Tins Day. Five persons lost their lives in . a ghastly tragedy on an isolated dairy farm in the hills at Stoneleigh. Tho house was burnt down, and the charred bodies of the victims were found heaped together among the ruins. The victims were:— V. Hawkes, aged 30, owner of the property. His wife, Florence. (32); their son and daughter, aged eight two, respectively, and C. Erbacher (75), 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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Wairarapa Daily Times, 22 July 1935, Page 5
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