PROMISED TO MARRY HER

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16373, 22 June 1927, Page 7

PROMISED TO MARRY HER

AND BORROWED £7O THEN WEDDED ANOTHER (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Magistrate, Mr. W. G. Riddoll, heard a case wherein Jack Lindsay McMillan, described as an advertising agent, was sued by a young woman, a domestic servant, for the recovery of over £7O allegedly lent to the defendant. The plaintiff said she first met defendant as a result of an advertisement for a wife. He described himself as a journalist working on a Wellington paper, and shortly after making her acquaintance borrowed £lO from her, afterwards getting her to sign a receipt indicating that ho had paid the money back. Other amounts were, borrowed later, -the defendant having promised to marry her.

The defence was that the £lO had been paid back. Replying to counsel, the defendant said he was in the literary department of the Dominion for seven years. He wanted the money for business reasons and they were going to be married.

Counsel: But you haven't married her? Why haven't you? Defendant: Oh, well I can't, because I'm married. I've been married six months.

Counsel informed the magistrate that the defendant was never a member of the literary staff, but was a telephone attendant. The magistrate said the girl had been rather foolishly trusting, whilo the defendant's actions showed that ho had been 'nothing more or less than an adventurer, pure and simple, who was out to get as much as he could out of her. The only difficulty was as to the amount judgment should be given for, but he would fix it at £SO.