DOUBLE MURDER AT SYDNEY.
TWO WOMEN FOUND DEAD AND man Bounded.
Sydney, September. 10,
A tragedy occurred at Erkineville, where 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, 32, and the man is Thomas Hawthorne. A •bloodstained razor and a knife and the indication of a struggle showed that the tragedy took place during the night. Hawthorne was treated in hospital and removed to a reception house. The Erksineville murder occurred in a squalid house iu a slum area. As an illustration of the viciousness of the killing, a parrot and a canary were also killed. Both Mrs Galetta and Mrs Cox fiercely straggled with the murderer. Hawthorne was previously an inmate of a mental asylum.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3536, 11 September 1926, Page 2
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144DOUBLE MURDER AT SYDNEY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3536, 11 September 1926, Page 2
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