SUPREME COURT

Evening Star, Issue 25928, 21 October 1946, Page 8

SUPREME COURT

PRISONER SENTENCED Pleading guilty charges of false preutences, Bertram .Anderson was sentenced in the Supreme Court this morning to 15 mofiths’ imprisonment with hard labour on each charge, the sentences to be concurrently served and also to be concurrent with all sentences previously passed upon the prisoner. - In a short statement the prisoner said that he had been interviewed concerning the case six months ago and had appeared in Christchurch a, number of times since, but no attempt had been made to deal with the present charges. He would like the fact taken into consideration that these offences were committed before the charges for which he was already serving a sentence of three years. Mr F. B. Adams, who appeared for the Crown, agreed that there had been some undue delay in respect to the charge, but this was not on the part of the local police, but due to the fact that the files had been sent to'the north and had been overlooked. In passing sentence His Honour said that the prisoner was at present serving a lengthy term of imprisonment for false pretences and bigamy and the sentence be proposed to pass would not add to that which he was already serving. ' ORLER TO INSPECT BOOKS. His Honour made an order under Section 21 x of the “Banking 'Act, 1908,” authorising the Crown to inspect arid take entries from the books of the National Bank of New Zealand relating to the account of Thomas Gibson Waters.