A Diabolical Scheme.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 188, 8 February 1895, Page 2

A Diabolical Scheme.

SENSATIONAL AFFAIR in SYDNEY [Per Press Association.] Sydney, February 7. Henry Boyd has been committed for trial for two charges of inciting Charles Roylance to murder a young woman named Dolly Jones, and Henry Demsey, her adopted father and guardian, under sensational circumstances. Roylance deposed that recently the accused came to him and said Dolly Jones would shortly have .£2OO coming to her, and proposed that they should go to the house, and while Boyd got Deruprey out of the way Roylance should stun the girl and throw her into a water hole. Dempsey, it was suggested, should be subsequently treated similarly. Precautions were, it is alleged, to be taken to make it appear as if the death of the victims resulted from suicide. Roylance was to receive one-third of the amount realised from the two estates. After gaining possession of all the details of the horrible scheme Roylance informed the police of Boyd's proposals. Dempsey gave in detail a number of business transactions he had had with accused, with whom he was on friendly terms, and preparations were in progress for Boyd to draw up the will of both Miss Jones and himself. It was so arranged, Dempsey said, that Boyd should act as guardian to the girl in the event of anything happening to witness.