CONSPIRACY TRIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18551, 8 November 1923, Page 9

CONSPIRACY TRIAL.

EVIDENCE OF CAPTAIN. SIGNATURES REPUDIATED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. - (Reed. 8.23 p.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. 7. At the trial of James Thomas Jones and Charles Edwin Jones, charged with conspiracy to defraud Captain Warren, master mariner, and the mortgagee and solicitors of a station property, Captain Warren in evidence denied that C. E. Jones was his nephew or that ho ever authorised him to pass as such or purchase property for him. He also denied that signatures on various documents relating to the purchase of property were his. Ho admitted that the signatures on a number of blank cheques were his, but he had no recollection of signing them His memory was good until after he mot Jones. It afterwards began to fail. He could not explain the cause of J. T. Jones' Ftafercent from the dock when he said that he managed all Warren's affairs under power of attorney. He was being blamed for a bad property deal which was no fault of his. 0 E Jones, in a statement from the dock, said that J. T. Jones, who was his cousin, induced him to represent himself as Warren's nephew Witness objected as it seemed to be impersonation biiC his cousin said that it was all right and that ho had the advice o; two solicitors.