CONSPIRACY ALLEGED
A SYNDICATE’S SHARES. CHARGE AGAINST DETECTIVE. SYDNEY, February 3. The hearing was resumed today at the Central Police Court, Sydney, of the case in which a former detective, John Ellis Findlay, aged 40, was charged with having conspired to pervert the course of justice by aiding a prisoner, William Campbell, to abscond from bail and escape to New Zealand.
Accused was further charged, together with Ernest Pierce Coombe, 40, agent, and Charles Richard Tanser, 52, agent; ''with conspiring with William Campbell and William Holland Makin and others to defraud several persons of large sums of money.
There was a similar charge against William Campbell, 35, clerk.
Continuing his evidence Campbell said that about £550 had been received from the sale of shares in the Chargut syndicate. Witness said he had received £IOO, Tanser and Coombe about £IOO ana Findlay about £llO, apart from £35 which Campbell said he had authorised his wife to pay to Findlay. Makin received about £6O.
The case was further adjourned
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Northern Advocate, 4 February 1936, Page 9
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