CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD.

Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1350, 19 November 1884, Page 4

CONSPIRACY T O DEFRAUD.

(Pi? 1 ?ress 'Association} :{B The Sydney papers contain fuil ■reports or 'the'^tfarjije of 'conspiracy to defraud M laid <ag^inst jJanies Mackay, Pritchard , and Thomas Hirst Dbdsdn, .all formerly of Dunedfe. The information vr&s for a conspiracy between, the three defen* dants, and >chapgesv -that, they \nd other persons^rdcno^J&ave confipired togethe-^tfi '^eS^a^Phomas iJonnor; W£7irs2 8^ Whfe'rfiajfe of (thatfoetf jff , !^\e 6 late r firrrj, pf v Con pgf . *n<W«(f»!6W« §P*^ctQmi> \^defeat, , hiu&et, and. delay Connor m theprotr .! *eeWioh'of 'ft^iiit-broiight by^him-m:; New Zealand, again^ James Mac^ky 1 ' 1 for tfte^ recovery of his aforesaid -flhaite, -fttid tq ; publisb dui-icg.tbe pe|j»>: , •deßoyjiof "the proeeefliflgs -»m ttbatsuit, for the !s -p"iirposie i of t uhjustly iiS^': •fluencin^ /tlae^ decision thereof, a iilander doncernip^ .C6nhpr t described 1 m a letter difeil November's', 1882, j WFjJ^en })jy -Dqclf on to > M^ackay^ pp < the^Uowing words :— ( f I shall §top At Atetbing tilL I have^beaten O'Conii too*}- i tbinfe if yon con Id manage to get^a Sensational telegram oi* cables .{ grkM'Vj one ; bf the newspaper c6r- ■ reffi&a^nts ' * to> the papeir^ 'here, thp^a s '.jpriminal charge jbad. " been ! lai4l>y aflipsvirapce company .against ! a contractor who is .plaintiff m f* ; «uit that has beeri^so^yeryj^oQg before perhaps. .as-., list us a littlei buty l ou/must N be very «ureful not t/j mention names, *od also be sure that the charge is hid before you do it. I shoujd: very ntHch^like to .see him arrested for :• ifc . £rti)} as the oafle' is coining " on- at Wellington. What '£' gensatldn it ! would .create,, andsbake his. evidencealtogether"!"' ! "T^e ji?forpaaiioo" also contained other charge's." The Sydney* Morniitf Her^H contains : ever foitr ; dolumTO cf 1 ev'den'ce -fn i; tUe caie^ SDhe i ilbree! 'defetidantsi were committed for trial- ait the Darling" • criminal sessions- on the' 17th inA^^^Bair^f^ailb^d! tficii* defendant entering intb Ills own *