Doctor's Wife

Tragic Death of Doctor's Wife One-Time New Guinea Resident

THE news of the tragic death in Malaya of Mrs. lan Thomas Dickson (form erly Jean Hawnt, of Rabaul) was received in Svdnev on Julv 5.

Death was due to a shooting incident which occurred at the residence of Dr.

Blakemore, whose wife Dr. and Mrs.

Dickson had accompanied to her home, following a disagreement she had had with her husband. On reaching the Blake more home, the Dicksons were met bv Blakemore, who fired a revolver, instantly killing Mrs. Dickson and seriously wound ing Dr. Dickson. Blakemore was arrested and later died, whilst in a coma, at a mental hospital. The tragedy occurred at looh, Perak, where Dr. Dickson is chief medical officer. Fragmentary reports from Singapore make it clear that Dr.

Blakemore, an Englishman who had been many years in Malaya, had become de mented.

Residents of New Guinea will well re member Dr. and Mrs. Dickson, who for several years after their marriage in Rabaul in 1933, lived on the goldfields, where the doctor was a medical officer attached to the PHD. Later, they moved to Malaya; and during the war, Mrs, Dickson lived in Sydney with her mother.

Mrs. Jessie Hawnt, and her sister, Mrs.

Marjorie Ross,