THE MOXEY MYSTERY

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 150, 29 June 1928, Page 9

THE MOXEY MYSTERY

EVIDENCE.-,,AT ; INQUEST' PROCURING A MURDER Cnlted Press Association—By Electric Tel*. „ ■'.•.";.• eraph—Copyright. ..' ■ ■"■•• . : . (Received 29th June, 11 a.m.) . -'*. SYDNEY, This Day.* Dramatic developments have occurred in the mysteriousr Moxey, murder case .at. the inquest before' a Newcastle..Coroner on the victim, Eiehard Moxey, aged 34, who was shot dead near Stockton on 15th June while adjusting his. radio set. 'Apparently the- murderer".:-."fired through.a;closed window ;! in ;'the.dark-. ness and then .decamped.'".''' •'•:■' ;■' The police subsequently. '> arrested . Charles Jackson (21), who is charged1 with murder, and James Dent (21), charged with inciting Jackson to murder. Dent was formerly a partner of Moxey, but the partnership "was dissolved, owing to: domestic differences: The police obtained important: -statements, and Jackson led the police to a water hole where a gun had been thrown , : ■. ..■. -i -^ ::■' .■'. .• ' ...-' At the inquest, Charles Jackson.'s two statements were tendered, in; evidence. In the first, Jackson declared that Dent, the other accused, had urged and commanded him (Jackson) to.. murd<jr Moxey. In the second statement, Jackson : exculpated Dent and declared that Mrs. Moxey had offered him (Jackson) £50 to "do away with Dick." Jackson added that the didn 't liko to do this. She then threatened to put the police on him for running away from his employment.- Finally^ after a lot of persuasion he agreed, and shot arid killed. Moxey on 15th June, while the latter was attending to his wireless.set in his Qwn home at William.town.' ,: •'.' Detective Eyan submitted two statements by Dent, who in. the'first declared that he knew nothing about the murder till he. read a newspaper. In the sec-, ond Dent stated that1 Moxey was always jealous of bis'■ wife's attentions to him (Dent). On one occasion Dent overheard a quarer in which Moxey threatened to shoot him (Dent).: r, Detective . Eyan added that Jackson. stated that Dent on one occasion wanted him (Jackson) to take Moxey fishing, and then push him over the cliff. Jackson declined. Dent remarked that he would get a crook from Sydney to ,do the job.. /.■'. .. -."■ .. : . .;■■ .-.- Mrs. Moxey gave evidence' that she. was friendly with .Dent, who kissed her ■ when dissolving -partnership 'with her husband. She was occasionally alono with Dent, while, her husband was at the beach. She denied complicity in the murderof her husband. ■ "'•■, The Coroner warned Mrs. Moxey that she was not bound to answer questions likely to-incriminate her. Sh« admitted; that she had : corresponded with Dent since he left her husband's employment in. March last. Her husband saw the letters. He would then destroy; them. ..The inquiry was adjourned.