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Divorce Trial $80,000Fee LawyersQuestion of who should pick i Young’s wife—using an alias„r .... . 000for lawyer and special investigator fees in the much-contested Preston Jones divorce trial was before Judge Samuel W. Gardiner in Marin Superior Courtyesterday.W. O. Weissich. one of Janet Jones's attorneys, testified legal fees alone for the plaintiff, who has charged her millionaire San j I^eandro husband with mental cruelty, amount to $55,000.In addition, he said, 21.623 was spent for investigation seeking evidence of adultry by Jones and whereabouts of suspected hidden financial assets.Weissich said Mrs. Jones of 16 Marina Way in San Rafael, also had to pay $2,300 in income tax which her husband normally paid. He said Janet has nofunds.Under sharp and sometimes geemingly unbelieving questioning by Oakland attorney Franklin Stark, representing Jones, Weissich testified the “minimum going rate for attorneys in Marin County is $250 daily in court, and $35 an hour outsideof court.He said a private detective Charles Young of Castro Valley, participated in the alleged adultery and hidden asset investigation.Weissich admitted thatlaalleged invitation by Jones tospend an evening in an East Bay motel. He said, however, that the encouragement cameonly after Jones made the initial ni proposal, and the rendezvous 1 was to halt before anything ser-ious happened. RtStark commented that Weissich and his client must have been very frustrated in their failureto compile adulteryevidence.Weissich replied he wasn’t frustrated, but was instead sur-stMDrrEprised at how ’‘discreet Jones; P was in his post-separation be- C havior. He said need for investi- a gators became evident after! Rhearing reports that the Presco- itlite factories—of which Jones is half owner—were practically | f houses of ill repute, and that “beautiful babes abounded on the premises.Judge Gardiner continued the hearing until Wednesday.■fThTiStolenThieves stole three tires valued at $85 from new cars in the lot of DeLong Chevrolet on Francisco Boulevard, San Rafael, sometime Tuesday night. The theft was reported Wednesday bv Clarence DeLong Jr.
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San Rafael Daily Independent Journal
San Rafael, California, US
Fri, Jun 04, 1965
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