ALLEGED CONSPIRACY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 97, 5 February 1936, Page 5

ALLEGED CONSPIRACY.

CASE AGAINST EX-DETECTIVE. (United Press Association—Copyright.) SYDNEY, February 3. The hearing was continued to-day at the Central Police Court, Sydney, of the case in which a former detective, John Ellis Findlay, was charged with having conspired to pervert the course of justice by aiding a prisoner, William Campbell, to abscond from bail and escape to New Zealand. Accused was further charged, together with Ernest Pierce Coomlie, aged 40, agent, with conspiring with William Campbell and William Holland Makin and others to defraud several persons of large sums of money. There was a similar charge against William Campbell, aged 35, a clerk. Campbell, one of the defendants, further cross-examined by Mr R. Buggy who is appearing for Coombe, said that in recent years he (Campbell.) had promoted two companies and had been director of four, but there werr other companies in which he had sold shares. Campbell explained that Coombe was connected with a prominent insurance company. The latter had agreed to furnish him with the names of people who had bought annuities in his company, provided that he received 25 per cent, of the money from the sale of shares in the Ghargol Syndicate. Campbell refused to answer several questions,, which he said might incriminate him on other.charges. The case was adjourned.