SHOOTING OF ATTORNEY
• MAN CONFESSES TO POLICE DETROIT, June 30. The police to-day declared that the murder of Mr Howard Dickinson was solved with the confession of William Schweitzer, an underworld character, that he fired the fatal shots. Schweitzer first said he had quarrelled with Dickinson over a small gambling debt and killed him in self-defence. Later he changed his story to say that he shot in self-defence after he and Dickinson, with several women acquaintances, had been on a long drinking party. The police hold the theory that he deliberately killed Dickinson for the money he was carrying, and intend to press the murder charges. Mr Howard Carter Dickinson, aged 52, a prominent New York attorney and nephew of Chief Justice Hughes, was murdered in a public park on June 27 by a bullet through the head. Dickinson was relieved of a wallet containing several thousand dollars.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22612, 2 July 1935, Page 9
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