CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY
WARREN CASE! CONCLUDED. BOTH ACCUSED FOUND GUILTY. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, November 8. The jury found both J. T. and C. L. Jones guilty. They recommended Charles to mercy on account of his previous good character. James was sentenced to 18 months’ hard labour, and Charles to nine. The latter’s sentence was suspended, and he was hound over in one surety of £4O. The judge remarked that he recognised that C. E. Jones had been influenced oy James. James Thomas Jones and Charles Edwin Jones were charged, with conspiracy to defraud Captain Warren, master mariner, and the mortgagee and solicitors of his station property of large sums of money. The evidence given by Warren and others at the time of the committal of accused was that Warren was kept in confinement for a considerable time in a state of “dope” while his property was being gradually taken from him.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19014, 9 November 1923, Page 5
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