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Issue Details: First known date: 1936... 1936 The Killer
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A new teacher arrives in town with his pet German Shepherd. The local people assume his dog is a sheep killer and so keep their children away from school and threaten the teacher and his dog. When a child is missing his dog finds her and also kills the real sheep killer.

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    y separately published work icon The Queenslander 17 September 1936 Z1692675 1936 newspaper issue 1936 pg. 5,7
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