SENTENCE OF DEATH
MURDER IN N.S.W
BODY FOUND IN WELL
SYDNEY, June 17. In the Criminal Court to-day, Francis Henry Maudlin, aged 27, labourer, was found guilty of the murder of Charles Dawson,, formerly a team driver, aged 47, whose body was found on May 6 in a disused shallow well close to Lake Ulawarra, on the south coast of New South Wales. 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.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19044, 18 June 1936, Page 5
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