An interested spectator in court was Mr. John Gadsby, former legal adviser to the British Embassy in Tokyo, who recently was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court here. Mr. McNeill stated that there were additional charges mentioned in the lower Court and asked if accused desired to have taken into consideration. Counsel pointed out that he had selected only three of the charges.
Asked if he had anything to say as to why sentence should not be passed upon him aotused desired that the Court take into considergtion the fact that the other char had not been brought forward. The specific charges preferred against Archer were:
That he at Shanghai on August 9, 1941, with intent to defraud had obtained from Mr. J. R. Weerapulli, a jeweller, a diamond and onyx ring by pretending that a cheque which he produced and delivered was then a good and valid order for payment of $875 and that he, then had authority to draw the cheque for payment upon the Chartered Bank.
That he at Shanghai on August 9. 1941, with intent to defraud obtained from an employee of Hall & Holtz, a raincoat, by falsely pretending that a cheque which he produced and delivered was a good and valid order for payment of $195 and that he then had authority to draw the cheque upon the Chartered Bank.
"That he at Shanghai on August 10, 1941, with intent to defraud obtained from the manager of the Cosmo Club the sum of $210 in money by falsely pretending that a cheque which he produced and delivered was a good and valid order for payment of 500 and that he then had authority to draw the cheque upon the Chartered Bank.
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