SHOOTING TRAGEDY
MAX. GIVES HIMSELF UP. *
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3?ec. 9.10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day
A tragedy is reported at Fitzroy. A man named Raymond Victor Dawson irave hismelf -up to the police and conjessed that he had fatally shot Vera May" Parks Dawson. He avers that the woman stayed with him a night. In the morning he followed her into the kitchen, carrying a supposedly unloaded revolver. He'"jokingly .said he would -shoot the woman, -who replied that he could not shoot a -worm. He jestingly levelled thc revolver and pulled the trigger when the revolver went off, killing the woman. JDawson was arrested, charged with murder.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue XLIX, 5 January 1916, Page 6
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