DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
+ (Received June 17, 11.25 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 17. At the Criminal Court Henry Joseph Maudlin, aged 27, was found guilty of the murder of Charles Dawson. Maudlin was sentenced to death. His chief defence was that he was mentally unstable because of a serious car accident in 1925, when his skull was fractured. [The body of a man identified as Charles Dawson, formerly a tram driver, was found secreted in a disused shallow well close to Lake Illawarra, on the south coast of New South Wales, early last month. Dawson had been shot in the temple.]
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21812, 18 June 1936, Page 6
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