MERCENARY ADVENTURER

Taranaki Daily News, 23 June 1927, Page 11

MERCENARY ADVENTURER

ADVERTISEMENT FOR A WIFE MONEY BORROWED FROM WOMAN. ALREADY MARRIED TO ANOTHER. By Telegraph. —Press Association. Wellington, June 22. The Magistrate, Mr. Riddell, heard a e3.se 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 defendant. Plaintiff said she first met defendant as the 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 he had paid the money back. Other amounts were burrowed later, defendant liar ing promised to marry her. The defence was that the £lO was paid back. Replying to counsel, defendant said lie was in the literary department of the Dominion for seven years. He wanted money for business reasons, and they were going to be married. Counsel: But you have not married her; wily have you not! Defendant: Oh, well, I can't, because Ini married. I’ve been married six months.

Counsel informed the Magistrate that defendant was never a member of the literary staff of the Dominion, but was telephone attendant. The Magistrate said the girl had been rather foolishly trusting, while defendant’s actions showed that he 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 £5O.