SHOOTING FATALITY ON WARSHIP
SEAMAN UNDER NAVAL ARREST I United PfPM Association— B.v Eleririr Tele.*™ pb -Copy right 1 BRISBANE. 3rd May. When the warship Dorsetshire, which left Sydney on Thursday after attending the anniversary celebrations, was steaming up the Queensland coast a seaman named Dickinson was fatally shot in the temple. It is believed Dickinson was lying in his bunk when he was shot. Police and a coroner boarded the vessel on its arrival at Cairns. A nineteen-year-old seaman is under "naval arrest” in connection with Dickenson’s death. 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 and was outside the jurisdiction of the Queensland police
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 4 May 1938, Page 7
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