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SYDNEY MAN GUILTY WOUNDING OF GUEST REMAND FOR SENTENCE - (10 am.) SYDNEY. Dee. 21. David Stewart Dawson, aged 24. a company director, was found guilty by a jury at the quarter sessions yesterday of having maliciously wounded George Rankin McKay, a former lieut - commander in the Royal Navy, with intent to inflict grievous bodilv harm. He was remanded until Monday for sentence. The jury recommended leniency because of Dawson's youth.
The charge arose from an altercatioa following a party at Stewart Dawson’s Palm Bcacli home on September
The police alleged that at 11.40 p m on September 8. at the palatial Stewart Dawson home at the fashionable north coast suburb of Palm Beach, an altercation arose while a party was in progress. It was alleged that the defendant took a pistol from his pocket and fired a ' shot, which struck Mackav in the groin
David Stewart Dawson is a grandson of the late Princess Harriet Radziwill, widow of the late Mr. Stewart Dawson, with whom she came to Australia shortly after the last war.
About 1927 she married Princ# Michael Radziwill. member of a wealthy Polish family,, who is also a cousin of the ex-Kaiser and was linked with Ihc Imperial House of Russia. She died in Svdney on October 21 last voar. David Steward Dawson has one sister. Harriet. a«ed 21. He is married and served in the army for a period during the war. He recently returned to Australia from which ho visited on behalf of the Dawson estate of which he is a director.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22210, 21 December 1946, Page 3
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