COLD, CALCULATED ACT
VERDICT IN DOUBLE SHOOTING (P.A.) . Auckland, Nov. 14 Inquests into the deaths of Mrs. Hannah Lawson, aged 43, a housemaid, and Jack Dickinson (alias Jack White), aged 34 labourer, the central figure in a double shooting affair in Wynyard Street, citv, on the night of Monday, October 29, were concluded by the coroner, Mr. A. Addison. Dickinson was found lying wounded in the middle of the road with a bullet wound in his head, at 10.20 p.m., shortly after the discovery of Mrs,. Lawson’s body with a bullet wound in the left eye in a room in an apartment house at Wynyard Street. The wounded man died at the Auckland Hospital the following morning. “It is clear it was a cold, calculated and premeditated act,” said the coroner, in returning a verdict that Mrs. Lawson’s death was caused by laceration of the brain as the result of a gunshot wound inflicted with intent by Jack Dickinson also known as JackWhite. The verdict in Dickinson’s case was suicide bv a self-inflicted bullet wound of the skull.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 271, 16 November 1945, Page 8
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