Immediate Return now not Expected: Court Work Held up The belief is generally expressed among local American Consular and Court officials that Judge Lobingier, who was to have left Seattle recently for Shanghai by the P.M.S, Hoosier State, will not return at present.
A telegram from Seattle announced his actual departure for Shanghai, but it is significant that when a wireless was sent to the ship at sea, no reply was received here.
The "North-China Daily News" was informed on Thursday of the possibility that' Judge Lobingier, who throughout the period of the lengthy inquiry into the charges against him at Washington was always free to leave for China, heard that a decision in his case had been rendered and deferred his departure.
In the meantime U. S. Court officials in Shanghai are in wonder that. Washington persistently ignores the serious state of affairs in the Shanghai jurisdiction, whose judge has been absent for nearly nine months. Recently the number of criminal cases in which the defendants have been committed to the higher court has increased. Should the list grow bigger-> there are chances that the alleged wrongdoers would be unable to supply the necessary bail sureties and suffer perhaps additional imprisonment. Civil cases, although jin a number of instances they have been withdrawn through the parties coming to some composition over their respective differences, must occupy the attention of Judge Lobingier or his successor for some considerable time.
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