Los Angeles herald., 1890-08-03
HE is GREEN,
But He Managed to Secure Good
Sized Loan.

OuI ne Managed TO secure a IOOo-
Sized Loan.
In the city Justices court yesterday
young man named John L. Green ap-
peared before Justice P. E. King, of
Garvanza, (sitting for Justice Lockwood,)
for preliminary examination upon the
charge of having in August, 1889, OBJ
tanned money from A. j. Mead by means
of false pretenses.
The complainant, A. J. Mead, real
estate and loan agent, testified that on
August 21st last the defendant called
upon him at his Office, on Spring street,
and represented that he owned property
on Hope street, valued at $4,000, and
ranch near Santa Rosa, Sonoma county,
valued at $4,000; that he accompanied
Green to Hope street, and after looking
over the property returned to his Office
and loaned him 1926 on his promissory
note, payable in ninety days,
to the order of a Mrs. Winches-
ter, for whom he acted as agent.
When the note became due, however,
it was learned that Green had left the
city for the north, and, his suspicious
being aroused, Mead few weeks ago
| filed complaint against Green, who was
arrested and brought back to the city
from San Francisco.
T. L. Chaplin, real estate agent, tes-
titled that he formerly occupied an Office
on Spring street with Mead. In August
last Green called upon him and listed
some property in Santa Rosa and lot
on Hope street, which he commissioned
him to sell for SIS, 900 and IS 900 respec-
lively.
R. M. Gamble stated that he had ac-
companied Green about year ago to
look at property on Hope street, which
Green wanted to trade for country prop
erty.
! W. B. Mayes, searcher OF records
and attorney-at-law, testified to having
made search of the records Of Los An
geles county at the request of Mead,
since 1850 to August 21, 1889. The prop
erty referred to by Green, on Hope
street, was found to belong to Mrs. j. H.
Lucas until June, 1888, when it was
transferred to Mrs. E. B. White.
The prosecution then introduced cer-
tifcate from Harvey Moore, deputy
county recorder of Sonoma county, to
show that Green had never owned any
property in Santa Rosa, and closed its
case.
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took the stand on his own behalf, and
testified that the ladies referred to, Mrs.
Lucas and Mrs. White, were relatives of
his. The Hope-street property was sub
sequently transferred to Mrs. White,
who told him that he could handle and
mortgage it, if he so desired. On this
ground he felt safe in telling Chaplin that
he owned the property, when he listed
it, as he thought that Mrs. White would
give him deed whenever he required
it, should trade be made.
As to the Santa Rosa property, he ex-
planned that his grandfather Lucas had
decided certain tract of land to the city
of Santa Rosa, with the reservation
that unless it was used for hospital
purposes as he designed, it should revert
to his four heirs. AS the city Of Santa
Rosa had not carried out the project he
came to the conclusion that he was en-
titled to one-fourth of the property. He
had since found out through his attor-
news that the statute of limitations fore
closed his claims.
AS fitting close to this story the de-
fendant stated that Mead trusted him
with the money, without regard to his
that in any event he intended to repay
it at the earliest opportunity.
The case was then argued pro and con
by the respective counsel and submitted
to the court, who held the defendant to
answer to the charge in the superior
court under bonds in the sum of $500, in
default of which he was committed to
the county jail.