GRANDFATHER KIDNAPPED.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 10 December 1925, Page 5

GRANDFATHER KIDNAPPED.

CONSPIRACY ALLEGED AGAINST GRANDSONS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRHIGT LONDON, Dee. 8. The trial was continued to-day of Thomas Williams. Geoffrey Arden and Charles Arden, who were charged with conspiracy to defraud the grandfather of the two last-named, Douglas Arden, of money and securities. It was a'leged that the accused kidnapped the grandfather, who is aged 81 years, in a London street and drove him in a taxicab to Gloucester Gate. wher e be put bis signature to eleven bills of £SOOO each. Mrs .Dorothy Short, Arden’s daughter, gave evidence that her father’s memory was failing rapidly. H P could not remember a day’s events at evening. She con d not say how wealthy her father was. but thought that he had invested £315.000 on his own behalf. Her brother, who was the father of th P grandsons, after leaving Oxford, went to Australia, where he married a daughter of Sir James Martin, then Chief Justice of New South Wales. After their father’s death, the 1 grandlather paid for the accused’s education and allowed them £3OO annually for keep. Bince 1021 each grandson had been a'lowed £4 weekly. * Defending counsel said the defence was that the kid nap pin g was carried out for the purpose of forcing the anp'liniment of a receiver to protect tlie grandsons’ interests.