SHOOTING CASE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26285, 17 October 1946, Page 7

SHOOTING CASE

INCIDENT AT PARTY EVIDENCE CONTINUED (Rec. 11 p.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 16. Further evidence was given to-day in the case in which David Stewart Dawson, aged 24, is charged with malicioifSly wounding a former Royal Navy officer, George Rankin Mackay. A taxi driver who was sitting in a car outside Stewart Dawson’s home when the altercation occurred on the porch said Stewart Dawson, sen., had a bottle in his hand and was waving his arms about. Words were exchanged, and there was a shot. He saw the defendant with a pistol, and after the shot he heard Mackay say: “ You should not have done that, David.” Witness also saw Stewart Dawson, sen., aim a kick at Mackay as ne lay. ' Three previous witnesses gave evidence which corroborated parts of this evidence. Owen Patrick Garvan said that the defendant informed him by telephone that Mackay had attacked Stewart Dawson, sen., and that he had had to shoot. Witness later saw the wound and took Mackay to hospital. Cross-examined by Mr J. W. Shand, K.C., he said he had a long conversation with the defendant on Septemner 18, which, he learned afterwards, had been recorded by shorthand writers. He may have exaggerated, and 'it was possible that he lied on that occasion. He thought the defendant was taking things too lightly, and wanted to shock him into a more reasonable state. He did not say that Mackay was trying to blackmail the defendant. The case is proceeding.