PALM BEACH SENSATION

Evening Star, Issue 25893, 10 September 1946, Page 8

PALM BEACH SENSATION

SHOT FIRED AT PARTY COMPANY DIRECTOR CHARGED SYDNEY, September 9. David Stewart Dawson, aged 24, a company director, was charged at the Manly Court to-day , with having maliciously, wounded George Maclcny, a former lieutenant-commander in the Royal Navy, at Palm Beach last night. The police alleged that at 11.40 p.m. yesterday at the palatial Stewart Dawson" home in the fashionable north coast suburb of Palm Beach an altercation arose while a party was in progress. It is claimed that the defendant took a pistol from, his pocket and fired a shot which struck ; Mackay in the groin. Mackay is in hospital. The bullet has not been removed, but the police state that he is not in immediate danger. In applying for a remand, the police prosecutor asked that , the seriousness of the allegation might be ; taken into consideration in deciding the bail. The remand was granted, and bail was fixed at £2OO, with one surety of £2OO or two of £IOO each. David Stewart Dawson is a grandson of the late Princess Harriet Radziwill, widow of the late Stewart DawRon. with whom she came to Australia shortly after the last war. About 1927 she married Prince Michael Radziwill. a member of a wealthy Polish family, who was also a cousin of the ex-Kaiser, nnd was linked with the Imperial •House of Russia. She died in Sydney on October 12 last year. David has one sister, Harriet, aged 21. He is married, and served in the Army for a period during the war. He recently returned to Australia from England, which he visited on behalf of the Dawson estates, of which he is a director. ,