VALUELESS CHEQUES.
AN UNUSUAL CASE.
QUESTION OF SANITY. [BY TELEGRAPH.— PRtSS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. In the Supreme Court to-day Wallace John Bruce Carter (alias Warren TurnLull) came up for sentence on a charge of ha\ g issued valueless cheques, prisoner s counsel described the case as an extraordinary one. Carter, who was the son of a bank manager in Sydney, bad a mental breakdown when 18 years old. Later he served in Gallipoli, Egypt and France, being wounded, gassed, and shell-shocked. He was discharged before the armistice, returned to Australia, and was sent to a mental hospital. He escaped, and. not being recaptured, was discharged. Ordinarily he was a quiet, decent man, but he suffered from strange turns, during which he was not morally responsible. The Crown Prosecutor said prisoner lived expensively, and supported loimself by issuing valueless cheques. Mr. Justice Adams said he would deal with the case apart from the question of insanity, which would be inquired into by the proper authorities. Prisoner had established a bad record in the Dominion. He would be sentenced to 12 months' reformative treatment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18019, 18 February 1922, Page 11
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182VALUELESS CHEQUES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18019, 18 February 1922, Page 11
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