ALLEGED CONSPIRACY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 111, 7 November 1923, Page 5

ALLEGED CONSPIRACY

DEFRAUDING OLD MARINER

UNDER INFLUENCE OF "DOPE."

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t. x• , SYDNHY- 6th November. lne trial has commenced at the Quarter Sessions of James Thomas Jones, and Charles Edwin Jones, on a charge ot conspiracy to defraud Captain Warren, a master mariner, and the mortgagee and solicitors of a station property of divers large sums of money.

Evidence was given by Warren and others at the time of the committal .ot accused that Warren was kept in connnement for a considerable time in a state of "dope," whilo his property was being gradually taken from him.: ' ihe evidence for the Crown at the trial was that J. T. Jones represented to the mortgagee and solicitors of the propeHy that he had been delegated ■by Warren to represent him in the purchase, while C. E. Jones represented himself as a nephew of Warren, and tire prospective manager of the property Subsequently the two accused signed documents for the purpose of the transfer, in the name .of Warren. Failure to meet a promissory note for £500 on the due date led to. disclosures,' resulting in the present proceedings. On bohalf of Captain Warren it was' alleged that he did not authorise the accused to negotiate or sign any documents for him.

Josephine Keiss gave, evidence that during the year she acted as housekeeper for Warren and J. T. Jones Warren never left the house, but 'was in the same mental condition as at present.