Supreme Court Trick used to get $1850, says Crown

Press, 12 October 1976, Page 28

Supreme Court Trick used to get $1850, says Crown

A man had been tricked into lending $lB5O, which was to be used as a part payment of his income tax. to a woman to buy a car and when he asked for repayment; on the due date she said the car was registered in her name and “that was that.” Mr Justice Roper and a jury were told in the Supreme Court yesterday. Migonne Aileen Young, aged 30, a nurse aid, has pleaded not guilty to a charge of obtaining $1850; by false pretences from Hec-i tor William Brown, a rub-; her goods manufacturer, by I falsely stating that the loan was guaranteed by her mother. Christine Aileen Young The trial will finish today. Mr D. C. Fitzgerald appears for Young. When opening the case for the Crown Mr N. W. Williamson said that it was alleged that Young tricked Mr Brown into lending her $lB5O to buy a car. He was prepared tn lend her the

money provided it was repaid by March 3 so that he could pay his tax. Young had assured him that she could because her mother was going to be in a position to let her have the money by then. She told him that her mother would guarantee the repayment of the loan and would sign a promissory note for it. When Mr Brown asked to speak to her mother Young said that her mother had a [weak heart and went to bed early. Young gave him a telephone number to ring and ■ when he did so a woman confirmed that the money would be repaid by March 3. However, the woman Mr Brown spoke to was not Young’s mother but Christine Penny, a friend of accused. Young's mother knew nothing about the loan, never guaranteed repayment and was not a party to it. The next chapter in the story was when Mr Brown contacted Young on March 3 and she told him that she l

did not have the money, that the car was in her name, and “that was that.” Mr Brown spoke to Young’s mother and she told him the truth of the matter, Mr Williamson said. Detective George Fotheringham Kerr said that when he saw Young on March 25 she emphatically denied having borrowed $lB5O from Mr Brown. She claimed that he had given it to her because she had been “turning it up” for him.

Young made a written statement in which she admitted that she had borrowed $lB5O from Mr Brown after meeting him at a Christmas party. She arranged for a girl friend to pass herself off on the telephone as her mother and to guarantee repayment. Young admitted the statement was ;tme but refused to sign it, I Detective Kerr said.