STRANGE CASE.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15127, 18 February 1922, Page 5

STRANGE CASE.

MAN BEFORE COURT. % (Press Association.) CHRIST CHUR bH, Feb. 17. At the Supreme Court Wallace John Bruce Carter, alias Warren Turnbull, came up for sentence for theft and issuing valueless cheques. Prisoner’s counsel described the case as an extraordinary one. Carter was the son of a bank manager in Sydney and had had a mental breakdown when eighteen years old. Later lie had served on Gallipoli and in .Egypt and France, being wounded, gassed, and shell shocked. He was discharged before the armistice and returned to Australia. Being sent to a mental hospital he escaped, a,nd not Being recaptured was discharged. Ordinarily he was a quiet, decent man, hut had suffered from strange •turns, during which he was not morally responsible. The Crown Prosecutor said that prisoner lived expensively and supported himself by issuing valueless cheques. Mr Justice Adams said he would deal with the ease apart from the question of insanity, which would be inquired into by the proper authorities. Prisoner Fad established a bad record in the Dominion and would be sentenced to twelve months’ reformative treatment.