Verdict of Guilty
SYDNEY MURDER TRIAL. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. SYDNEY, June IS. 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 iu 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 Lako Illawarrn on the South Coast on May 5. Dawson had been shot iu the temple and there was a bag over his head, fastened around his neck with a rope. Ho lived alone in a onc-roomcd 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 ho was buried. Later police arrested Francis Henry Maudlin, a t ed 27, near Bulli on the South Coast, and charged him with murdering Dawson,
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 1423, 19 June 1936, Page 7
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