INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL.
GETS THREE YEARS. .. CHARGE OF FORGERY. ; ''This man has convictions extending all over the world," said the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), in tho Supreme Court this morning, in passing sentence of three years' reformative detention on William Stafford Anderson, a well-groomed, fashionably dressed man jof about thirty years. Anderson hail pleaded guilty in the Lower Court to a charge of forgery. "There are cases that are entirely duo to drink, and you are one of the cases.'' said Sir Robert Stout. "Unfortunately people in this country don't seem to realise that half our cases are caused by drink. We go on using it as though it was doing no harm. The country in spending over £8.000,000 a year on drink, while half the prisoners in our gaols— some say a third, but I think half of them—are there owing to drink."
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 285, 2 December 1925, Page 7
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144INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL. Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 285, 2 December 1925, Page 7
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