VERDICT OF GUILTY.
SYDNEY MURDER TRIAL, (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) (Received June 17, 9.10 p.m.) .SYDNEY, June 17. At the Criminal Court, Henry Joseph Maudlin, aged 27, was found guilty of the murder of Charles Dawson, Maudlin was sentenced to death. His chief defence was that he was mentally unstable owing to a serious car accident in 1925, when his skull was fractured.
The body of a man, identified as Charles Dawson, formerly a tram driver, was found secreted in a disused shallow well close to Lake Illawarra on the South Coast on May 5, Dawson had been shot in the temple and there was a bag- over his head, fastened around his neck with a rope. He lived alone in a one-roomed building- and received a pension, but it is known that he posed as a man of means. The police discovered a trail of blood from the hut to the spot where he was buried. Later police arrested Francis Henry Maudlin, aged 27, near Bulli on the .South Coast, and charged him with murdering Dawson.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 June 1936, Page 5
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