SYDNEY MURDER TRIAL
MAN FOUND GUILTY (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) SYDNEY, 17th June. 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 sth May. 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 Henry Joseph Maudlin, aged 27, near Bulli on the South Coast, and charged him with murdering Dawson.
TO BE MADE IMMEDIATELY
AUCKLAND, This Day.
An application for a reprieve is to be prepared immediately by Mr K. C. Aekins, solicitor for Eric Mareo, who was sentenced to death last night on a charge of wife murder.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 18 June 1936, Page 7
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