TRIAL OPENS
ALLEGED MURDER AT SEA
(Received June 22," 1.40 p.m.)
HONG KONG, June 21.
The trial has begun at the Assizes of able seaman Edwin Dwyer, aged 19, charged with the murder of leading seaman Robert Dickenson aboard H.M.S. Dorsetshire when the vessel was steaming up the Queensland coast.
It Is alleged that Dickenson made a discovery about Dwyer's conduct, after which Dwyer was heard threatening Dickenson, and that Dwyer retained ammunition belonging to a rifle team and shot Dickenson while he was asleep.- ■ Nobody saw the act.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 145, 22 June 1938, Page 12
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