SEAMAN CHARGED WITH MURDER
INCIDENT OFF AUSTRALIAN COAST HONG KONG, May 16. An able seaman, Edwin Dwyer, aged 19 years, of H.M.S. Dorsetshire, has been remanded on a charge of murdering Leading Seaman Robert Dickinson off the Australian coast. A seaman named Dickinson was fatally shot in the head while the British cruiser Dorsetshire was steaming up the Queensland coast on May 3. It is believed that Dickinson was lying in his bunk when he was shot. Policemen and the coroner boarded the vessel on her arrival at Cairns. The ship’s commander, It is understood, prevented Queensland detectives from Intervening or even investigating the shooting on the ground that it occurred on the high seas and outside the jurisdiction of the Queensland police. The Dorsetshire is a 10,000-ton cruiser of the same class as H.M.A.S. Canberra, and is commanded by Captain F. R. Barry.
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Southland Times, Issue 23512, 19 May 1938, Page 5
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