FRAUD ALLEGATION

Northern Advocate, 25 October 1935, Page 11

FRAUD ALLEGATION

HEARING continued lengthy EVIDENCE. MOTHER and son on trial. (Rnecial to “Northern Advocate.”! AUCKLAND, This Day. Further, lengthy evidence in the trial of Laul Edward Din, clerk, aged 23, and his mother, Madeline Elizabeth Din, on charges of defrauding the Post Office Savings Bank of money totalling £4550 was heard before Mr Justice Fair in the Supreme Court. Din is arraigned on three charges of forging withdrawal slips and with obtaining sums of £IBSO, £9OO -and £IBOO from the Auckland Post Office Savings Bank by means of a false pretence. Mrs Din figures in only one charge, being joined with her son on the charge of obtaining £IBSO by means of a, false pretence.

Laul Din is represented by Mr R. Moody and Mr Kingston, and Mrs Din by Mr G. P. Finlay. Mr V. N. Hubble, and with him Mr Winter, appeared for the Crown. Much formal evidence was given this morning. Sister's Evidence. Onex Miriam Din, a sister of Laul Din, said that until recently she was employed in Auckland as a clerk. Her brother owned a motor car until Shout June of this year. He had transferred that car to witness.' On August 1 her mother, brother, sister Myra and witness went to Wellington in the car. In Wellington witness sold the car for about £9B. Witness went to a bank in Wellington and got a draft on Sydney for the cheque she got for the car. She got a further draft for £l5O in the name of Olive Lawrence, her brother giving her the money for the draft. The ether draft she had got in the name of Olive Vadene. , Cross-examined by Mr Moody,“witness said she /knew her father had given her sister large sums of money from time to time and that he had also given her brother large sums. To Mr Finlay: “The money for the draft was given to me by my brother in Auckland. I..was in Wellington when my brother gave me the £l5O to buy the draft. I understood that the money had come from my father. I had been so used to his receiving money, that I took it as a matter of course.” Had Mother’s Money. Further cross-examined by Mr Finlay, witness said her brother had £340 of her mother’s. That was the money, he drew from the . Savings Bank in Christchurch when she was coming to Auckland. Witness was with her mother the whole, of the day on August 1, and during that day neither she nor- witness was in the Post -Office Savings Bank in Auckland. Witness knew that her mother went into a bank in Karangahape Road that day, but she did not notice ehr brother give her any money, nor did she notice her brother give her mother money to go into the bank in Wellington the following day. Changing Their Name.

“We were in the process of changing our name at that time,” continued witness: “A solicitor in Christchurch had started to do the work and a solicitor in Auckland was supposed to have finished it.' The name Moyer is the name of an aunt of mine. That name and other names were used for safety—we did not want to be defrauded of the money in Sydney. The question of the banks not wanting to send so much money away was also discussed. One reason for sending the money away in other names was to protect the money in. Sydney and the other was that my brother said the banks would not send so much away in one name. We wanted to start under our new name in Sydney.” Re-examined, witness said the new name was to be Dean—not Lawrence or Vadene. (Proceeding).