Arrest of Mr. E. G. Hinde:
School Teacher's Allegation of Fraud The arrest of Mr. E. G. Hinde, Manager and vice-president of Hinde Bros., & Ca., Inc. on charges of embezzlement, obtaining money under false pretences and larceny of amounts totalling Ts. 5,810, was effected on Tuesday morning by Mr. William Van Buskirk, U. S. Deputy Marshal, on information filed with Mr. L. G. Husar, U. S. District Attorney by Miss A. J. Woods, a teacher in the French Municipal School. It is alleged in the information that Miss Woods, prior to leaving for America, in June, 1922, handed to the accused two cheques, one for Tls. 3,000 and the other for Tls. 2,810, with instructions to buy American dollars at favourable rates of exchange. The first, it is alleged, was made out to herself and signed and endorsed by plaintiff, while in the second no name had been filled in, but it was signed and endorsed by plaintiff, which cheque, it is alleged, was then filled in and made payable to Hinde & Ca., Me., endorsed and then cashed. It is alleged that accused cashed both cheques for the total amounts and appropriate ed the funds to his own use, though it is admitted that G.$1,000 were received by Miss Woods during the summer.
Miss Woods, who had been teaching in the French Municipal School for four years, left for America in June, 1922, and proposed to attend Columbia to obtain her Master's degree, and last. summer she decided to accept a teaching position in Log Angeles. She declared that she. did not intend to return to China and with her mother and sister wished to remain at Home, but she! returned in September, 1923, to settle her financial affairs, and has again resumed her position in the French Concession.
CIVIL CASES PENDING.
There is at this time a suit (filed September 3, 1923) pending in the U.S. Court for China also, in which Mr. A. A. Tuomala of the Finnish Trangoceanic Trading Go., Ld., is suing E..G. Hinde of Hinde Bros. & Ca., Inc., Messrs. i Rodger & WHusar representing
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