After leaving the military , Jones arrived back in Australia in time to contest the 1917 state election , where he defeated William Carpenter of the National Labor Party in Fremantle . In 1919 , in the aftermath of the Fremantle wharf riot , he was twice fined for giving speeches on the Fremantle Esplanade without the permission of the Fremantle Municipal Council . His subsequent unsuccessful appeals prompted a debate about freedom of speech . At the 1921 state election , Jones was defeated by a Nationalist candidate , Frank Gibson . He was taken ill in the middle of 1923 , and died in Fremantle in January 1924 , aged 38 . He had married Winifred Alwina Ninke in 1915 , with whom he had one daughter
Fremantle wharf riot
1919 Fremantle Wharf riot
Walter Jones (Australian politician)