GHASTLY TRAGEDY
FIVE PERSONS DEAD
CHARRED BODIES IN FIRE
bullet wounds discovered.
United Pres* Assn. —Eioc. Tel. Copyright,
(Received July 22, 11.26 a.m.) BRISBANE, July 22.
Five persons lost their lives In a ghastly tragedy on an 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 (36), owner of the property; His wife, Florence (32); Their son and daughter, aged eight and two years respectively; C. Erbaoher, 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 in the war.
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19634, 22 July 1935, Page 7
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