Alfred Beecroft
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 3 Dec 1877 - Sydney, NSW, Australia 2
Christening: 12 Dec 1877 - Sydney, NSW, Australia 3
Death: 13 Aug 1947 - Werrington, NSW, Australia 4
Burial:
Cause of Death:
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Events
• Event, The Canberra Times, 14 Aug 1947
BODY OF FARMER FOUND BY POLICE AT WERRINGTON• Event, The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 Aug 1947
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SYDNEY, Wednesday
The police, answering a call to a lonely homestead at Werrington, near St. Mary's, to-day found the body of a man, who was reported to have been murdered.
He was Alfred Beacroft, 69, farmer, who had lived in the district all his life.
A preliminary examination by the district coroner did not reveal any apparent serious injury, although the police found blood on his head and lips.
The dead man's brother, Herbert Beecroft, 67, said that he and his brother had an argument, during which his brother collapsed.
The police believe that Beecroft died of heart failure, althought the cause will not be known until a post mortem is held.
Herbert Beacroft told the police about a long-standing family difference.
He said the house had been in the possession of his family for 80 years. His parents had been among the pioneers of the district.
FORMER FIGHTER
His brother, he said, was a former bare-knuckle fighter.
They had lived in the old family house a long time, ignoring each other.
Both of them had double padlocks fitted on the doors of their bedrooms.
The brothers met in the kitchen of their home yesterday.
"When I was boiling water on the old fuel stove," said Hebert, "my brother Alfred came into the room, and ordered me out because he wanted to boil some bacon.
"He picked up a hammer and, in the struggle which follwed, he fell to the floor. As he appeared to be dying I massaged his heart and looked for some brandy, but I could not revive him."
When the Nepean District Ambulance reached the house the man was dead.
Dr. I. M. Barrow, Government medical officer for the district, conducted a post-mortem examination at the Nepean District Hospital morgue. He told police that the condition of Beacroft's heart was so bad that he might have fallen dead at any time.
Parents
Father: Alfred Beecroft 5
Mother: Anastasia D'arcy 6
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