FRIEND’S ESTATE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 925, 21 November 1933, Page 5

FRIEND’S ESTATE.

Former Police Chief in the Dock. TREACHERY ALLEGED. (Special to the " Star.") LONDON, October 15. On thirty-five charges of alleged fraudulent conversion, Superintendent William Jones, former Deputy-Chief Constable of Glamorgan, was committed for trial by the Bridgend magistrates yesterday. There were twenty-one charges, involving £Bl6, the money of the Glamorgan Police Athletic Club, and fourteen involving £2915. Mr Temple Morris, M.P., prosecuting, said it was difficult to find words which ■would adequately describe Jones’s treachery and wickedness with regard to these charges. A more flagrant breach of trust could not be imagined. Jones was a friend of Henry George Alldridge, who made a will making Jones one of his executors. Before Mr Alldridge’s death another executor died and Jones became sole executor. Mr Alldridge left two daughters and a son aged 14, and he bequeathed the whole of his property to them. The wickedness of these charges could be appreciated, said Mr Morris, when it was said that within eleven days of obtaining probate Jones helped himself to £9Bl, with which be bought himself a bungalow. Other money he put in his own pocket. Superintendent William MacDonald said that when charged Jones replied: “I don’t know anything about it." Mr Richard Roberts, on Jones’s behalf, formally pleaded not guilty and reserved his defence. Bail was not applied for.