MURDER ALLEGED
FATALITY ON WARSHIP.
CHARGE AGAINST SEAMAN AT HONG KONG.
HONG KONG, June 7.
Able Seaman Edwin Dwyer, aged 19, charged with the murder of Leading Seaman Robert Dickenson aboard H.M.S. Dorsetshire, when the vessel was steaming up the Queensland coast, was described by the Crown Solicitor as the perpetrator of a “clever and premeditated murder” at the opening of the preliminary proceedings. It was alleged that Dickenson made a discovery about Dwyer's conduct, after which Dwyer was heard threatening Dickenson, and that Dwyer retained ammunition belonging to a rifle team and shot Dickenson while he was asleep. Nobody saw the act. The Prosecutor added that before the murder, Dwyer told his messmates: “I have some ammunition in my locker and am going to shoot him.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1938, Page 7
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