ALLEGED FRAUD.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 November 1923, Page 1

ALLEGED FRAUD.

A LARGE SUM INYOLA'E.). TRIAL OF CONSPIRATORS. SYDNEY. Nov. 0. The trial was commenced at the quarter sessions of James Thomas Jones and Charles Edwin Jones on a charge of conspiring to defraud Captain AA'arren, master mariner, and the mortgagee and solicitors of a station property of divers large sums of money. The evidence given by AA'arren and others at the time of the committal of the accused "its that AA'arren was kept in confinement for a considerable time in a state cl dope, while his property was being gradually taken from him. The evidence for the Crown at the trial was that J. T. Jones' represented to the mortgagee and solicitors of the station property that he had been delegated by Warren to represent him in the purchase, while C. E. Jones represented himself as the nephew of AA’arren and prospective manager of the property. Subsequently the two accused signed documents for the purchase and transfer of the property in the name of AA’arren: Failure to meet a protnisory note for £SOO on the due date led to the disclosures resulting in the present proceedings. On behalf of Captain AA'arren. it was alleged that he did not authorise the accused to negotiate or sign any documents for him. Josephine Reiss said that during the year she acted as housekeeper for Captain AA’arren and I. T. Jones, the former never left the house, hut was in the same mental condition as at present.