SYDNEY SHOOTING

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 October 1946, Page 8

SYDNEY SHOOTING

EVIDENCE BY DRIVER OF TAXI SYDNEY,. Oct. 16. Further evidence was given to-day in the case in which David Stewart Dawson, company director, aged 24, is charged with maliciously wounding a former Royal Navy officer, George Mackay. A taxi-driver gave evidence that he was sitting in a car outside the Stewart Dawson home when the altercation occurred on the porch. He said that Stewart Dawson, sen., b a 4 a bottle in his hand and was waving his arms about. Words were exchanged, and there was a shot. He saw the defendant With a pistol, and after the -snqt he heard Mackay say: “Ypu should pot have done that David!” Witness also said he saw Stewart Dawson, sen., aim a kick. Three previous witnesses gave evidence which corroborated parts of this evidence. Owen Patrick Gar van said that the defendant informed him by telephone that Mackay had attacked Stewart Dawson, sen., and that he had had to shoot. The witness later saw the wound and took Mackay to hospital. Cross-examined by Mr. Sand, K.C., the witness said that he had a long conversation with the defendant on September 18, which, he learned afterwards, had been recorded by shorthand writers. He may have exaggerated, and it was possible that he had wanted to shock him into a more reasonable state. He did not say that Mackay was trying to blackmail the defendant.