Etc. -- Sarah D. Louks dies following 1934 attack
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A transcription of a page 1 article in the 4 Oct 1934 Simcoe Reformer.

Indian arrested for assault
and robbery

Provincial police on Tuesday stated that they had arrested Hilton George Sherry, aged about [.]1, an Indian, who is being held in connection with the brutal assault and robbery of Mrs. Sarah Louks at her home south of Walsingham Centre about two weeks ago.
 
Mrs. Louks was attacked while she was sleeping in the house in which she lives with her son, and her injuries were so serious as to require her being removed to the hospital at Tillsonburg. A sum of money estimated at about $70 was taken.
 
Sherry was arrested in South Walsingham. He made his home not far from the Louks residence. He will be arraigned before Magistrate Cross on Thursday.

A transcription of a page 1 article in the 28 Oct 1934 Simcoe Reformer.

Sherry to Penitentiary

Hilton George Sherry, convicted of assaulting and robbing Mrs. Sarah Locks, Walsingham women, left Simcoe this morning for Kingston Penitentiary where he will serve a 10-year term. Sheriff Lt.-Col. A. C. Pratt took charge of him for the trip.

A transcription of a page 1 article in the 6 Nov 1934 SNorfolk Observer.

Victim of Assault 
Dies of Pneumonia

Victim of a vicious assault on 17 Sep 1934, for which Hilton George Sherry recently commenced a 10-year penitentiary sentence, Mrs. Sarah Deila Louks, 83-year old South Walsingham women, died at her home near Walsingham Centre late last week.
 
Death, according to her physician, Dr. Nicholson of Langton, was due to pneumonia and was not directly attributable to the effects of the attack. It was probable, however, that her injuries [considerably] weakened her resistance to the malady.

 
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