CONSPIRACY CHARGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 November 1923, Page 5

CONSPIRACY CHARGES

PROPERTY OWNER DOPED. MELODR AMATIC ALLEGATIONS. ) 'Australian and N.Z. Cable Association;) SYDNEY, November 6. 3 The trial has commenced at the f quarter sessions of James Thomas _ Jones and Charles Edwin Jones, on ia .charge »f conspiracy to defraud _ Captain Warren, Master Mariner, 3 and the mortgagee and solicitors of a station property, of divers large sums of money. 7 The evidence given by Warren and others at the time of the committal x tof (accused was that »Wa.rren was kept in confinement for a consider- „ able time in a state of dope, while f his property was being gradually be- { ing taken from him. r The evidence for the Crown at the trial was that J. T. Jones represent- ’ ed to the mortgagee and the solicitors T for the property that he had been delegated by Captain Warren to re- ’ present him in the purchase, while C. E. Jones represented himself, as a nephew of Warren, and as prospective manager of the property. Subsequently the two accused signed documents for the purchase and transfer of the property in the name of Captain Warren. A failure to ) meet a promissory note for H5OO on due date led to disclosures, resulting in the present proceedings. j On behalf of Captain Warren it t was stated that he did not authorise : any documents for him. Josephine Riss gave evidence that during the year she had acted as housekeeper for Captain Warren, and J. T. Jones. The former never left [ the house but was in the same meni. tai condition as at present.