ALLEGED CONSPIRACY
CASE OF FORMER DETECTIVE SOLICITOR DENIES STATEMENTS SYDNEY, Feb. 1 The hearing was resinned to-day at the Central Police Court, Sydney, of the ease in which a former detective, John lOllis 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 Tanscr, 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. Albert William Barry, solicitor and prosecuting officer of the Crown Law Department, was interposed as a witness to enable him to deny references which had been made to him. Witness said he had never been in Tracey's office and had never spoken by telephone to anyone in New Zealand. In reply to Campbell, witness said that if Findlay had stated that lie had given witness money, it would be a deliberate lio. The case was further adjourned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22333, 3 February 1936, Page 9
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186ALLEGED CONSPIRACY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22333, 3 February 1936, Page 9
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