LIVED ON BAD CHEQUES.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 February 1922, Page 8

LIVED ON BAD CHEQUES.

AUSTRALIAN’S LIFE OF LUXURY. QUESTION OF MENTALITY. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Feb. 17. In the Supreme Court, Wallace John Bruce Carter, alias Warreri Turnbull, came up for sentence for theft and issuing vnluesless cheques. Prisoner’s counsel described the case as an extraordinary one. Cartel’ was the son of a bank manager in Sydney. He had a mental break-down, when 18 years old. Later he served in Gallipoli, Egypt and France, being wounded apd gas shell-shocked. He was discharged before the armistice, returned to Australia, was sent to a mental hospital, escaped, and, not being recaptured, was discharged. Ordinarily he was a quiet, decent man, but suffered from strange turns during which he was not morally responsible. The Crown Prosecutor said prisoner lived expensively and supported himself by issuing valueless cheques. Mr. Justice Adams said La 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, and would be sentenced to 12 months’ reformative treatment.