Maureen Moore said all she could do was cry when she realised that a woman who was supposed to be her friend stole $9 000 she handed over to buy lumber to build a house 17 years ago.“That is money that I work and save, Sir,” she told the High Court on Tuesday as she gave evidence in the theft case against Crab Hill, St Lucy resident Rosita Gillette Auguste who has denied stealing the money from her between May 17 and 23, 2005.Under questioning by state prosecutor Romario Straker, Moore told Supreme Court No. 5a that she has known the accused by the name Juliette Auguste for “about 27 years now”.“Me and she was friends,” testified Moore who disclosed to the court that she could neither read nor write. “So I duh want a house. I ask she if she could get some lumber for me . . . . I didn’t know how to go about [getting] this lumber and she said ‘yes’. She say de lumber was coming from overseas and she know somebody that would get the lumber . . . but I would have to get de money for she.”