AUSTRALIAN MURDERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 May 1936, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN MURDERS

THE LATEST DISCOVERY. | —■* — I IM—[BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGH'i'.]/; ""syDney, May 6. The body of a man, identified as Charles Dawson, formerly a tfam driver, Was found Secreted ih. a dis* used shallow well close to Lake 111awarra, on the south coast. DaWsoil had been shot in the temple, and there was a bag over the. head, fastened around the neck with a roiib. 4 The police are convinced that tho man was,murdered. He lived alone in a one-roomed building. He received ij pension, but it is known that he POHC.fi as a man of means. Tlie police tftinli I hat robbery was tlie motive for crime. They discovered a trail of blood from his hut to the spot wner|j he was buried. t —— ■ H.. . CONDEMNED YOUTH’S BIRTIIbAY SYDNEY, May B. | Mi- Martin, Minister of Justice; stated in the Assembly to-day, that Hickey’s case would come befor/i Cabinet next week. The Minister gave the Opposition Leader, Mr J. T. Lang, the assuraneg tlrnt he would direct the Cabinet’s attention to the provisions of the Children and Young Persons’ Ac£ linszsed by the British Parliament, in. relation to hahgihg. , Hickey will bbl 8 years old to-mof-fow. "[