GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER
JONES ACQUITTED ON MAJOR CHARGE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright MELBOURNE, February 21. (Received,February 21, at 11 a.m.) A verdict of not guilty of murder, but of manslaughter, was recorded against Charles Jeffrey Jones, who was charged with the murder of James Albert Ross. Jones, in a statement, is alleged to have said that he fought with Ross and then shot him, after which he bound the body and threw it into a creek, [James Albert Ross, aged twentythree, a labourer, for whom seventy residents and police had been searching since his disappearance from Tallarook on January 11, was found dead in a creek with a bullet wound behind the right ear. His legs and arms were bound and a rock tied to his wrists. Later Charles Jeffrey Jones, aged twenty-four, a relative of Ross, was charged with the murder.] REMANDED FOR SENTENCE SYDNEY, February 21. (Received February 21, at 1 p.m.) Jones was remanded for sentence.
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Evening Star, Issue 21960, 21 February 1935, Page 9
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