REBUFF FOR POLICE.
SEAMAN FATALLY SHOT ON WABSIPP.
’(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) Received Tuesday, 9.30 p.m. BRISBANE, May 3.
When the warship Dorsetshire was steaming up the Queensland coast a seaman named Dickinson was falhlly shot in the temple. It is believed he was lying in his bunk when he was shot. Police and a coroner boarded the vessel on its arrival at Cairns,
A later message says a 19-year-old seaman is under "naval arrest" in connection with the death of Dickinson aboard the Dorsetshire.
The ship’s commander is understood to have prevented the Queensland detectives from intervening or even investigating the shooting on the ground that it occurred on the high seas outside the jurisdiction of the Queensland police.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 May 1938, Page 5
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119REBUFF FOR POLICE. Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 May 1938, Page 5
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