CONSPIRACY.

Press, Volume XL, Issue 5985, 18 November 1884, Page 2

CONSPIRACY.

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DUNEDIN, November 17. The Sydney papers contain full reports of the charge of conspiracy to defraud laid against .Tamee McKay, Edward Pritchard and Thomas Hirst Dodson, all formerly of Dunedin. The information was for a conspiracy between the three defendants, and charges that they and " other persons unknown " have conspired together to defraud Thomas Connor of JE7152 13s 7d, his share of the assets of the late firm of Connor and McKay, contractors, to defeat, hinder and delay Connor in the prosecution of a suit brought by him in New Zealand against James McKay for the recovery of Ms af oreeaid share, and to publish during the pendency of the proceedings in that suit, and for the purpose of unjustly influencing the decision thereof, a slander concerning Connor described in a letter, dated 3rd November, 18S2, written by Dodson to McKay, in the following words :—" I shall stop at nothing till I have beaten O'Connor. I think if you could manage to get a sensational telegram, or rather cablegram by one ot the paper correspondents to the papers here that a criminal charge had been laid by an Insurance Company against a contractor, who is plaintiff in a suit that has been so very long before the public, it would perhaps assist us a little, but you must be very careful not to mention any names, and also be sure that the charge is laid before you do it. I should very much like to see him arrested for it, just as the case i 3 coming on at Wellington. What a sensation it would create and shake his evidence altogether." The information also contained other charges. The " Sydney Morning Herald" contains over four columns of evidence on the case. The three defendants were committed for trial at Darlinghurefc Criminal Sessions on the 17th inst. Bail was allowed, each* defendant entering into his own bond of J .£250. 1