AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
{Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] EARTHQUAKE IN PAPUA. SYDNEY, September 10. A severe earthquake is reported from Madang. Papua, causing extensive damage. TRIPLE TRAGEDY. SYDNEY, September 10. A tragedy occurred at Erskineville, Sydney, where the bodies of two women with their throats fatally cut. and of a man with a gash in his throat, were discovered in a house. The women, were: Ellen Cox. aged sixtv-two. and her daughter. Ethel Galetta, thirtytwo ; and the man was Thomas Hawthorne. A blood-stained rasor and a knife, and a Iso indications of a struggle, showed that the tragedy took place during the night. ITawtlirone was treated at the Hospital and was removed to the reception house. The Erskineville murder occurred in a squalid house in a slum area. As an illustration of the viciousness of the killing, a parrot and a canary were also killed. Both Galetta and Cox fiercely struggled with the murderer. Hawthorne was previously an inmate of a. mental asylum.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1926, Page 2
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