On Tuesday an information was filed in the United States Court for China, against William A. Chapman on a charge of embezzlement. While the whole facts of the matter are not as yet fully known it appears that Mr. Chapman in the carly part of lust week left Shanghai on the str. Pres. Jefferson for a holiday in Japan, apparently intending to be away for some fourteen or fifteen days: Shortly after his departure, it would apies here had vestigate the condition of Mr. Chapman's accounts and, as a result, it is alleged that his accounts do not balance by some $30,000 Mexican.
Mr, Chapman has, for some six United in which position quite considerable sums money would pass through his hands. It would appear that a part of his duty would be to take care of those funds and to send statements to the appropriate department of the government in Washington from time to time showing the state of the accounts inder his control. "The allegation is that he did not do this for a period of some two years and it was apparently as a result of me quiries from the government that investigations were sct afoot with Tuesday's result. There seems to be no doubt but that up to 1924 Ar. Chapman had sent statements forward with due regularity, but apparently from January of that year he failed to do Investigations, we understand, have not yet been completed, and many conedwably take some days. Whether Mr. Chapman is still Japan inquiries failed to reveal.
Prior to joining the United States Court, Mr. Chapman was in the United States Army in the Philippines.
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