Hearing Postponed Owing to Attorney's Indisposition The hearing of the case against Mrs, Katherine De Salas Is postponed yesterday owing to the indisposition of Mr. R, G, Allman who was to appear in the U.S, Court for China for the defence.
Mr, Leighton Shields, District Attorney, told Judge Milton J. Helmick that a letter had been received from the attorney to that effect and that the hearing had therefore to be reset, Mrs, De as arrived from Japan last Friday together with Mr, Arthur Peterson, Deputy Marshal, to answer charges of obtaining goods under false pretences by issuing cheques which were returned marked "insufficient fund: on presentation at the bank, Over ten complaints were filed against her shortly after her depar ture from Shanghai, Payments are said to have been made to complainants upon her return from Japan with Mr, Peterson, Mrs, De Salas w s not put under arrest until she appeared in the District Attorn office shortly after he arrival last "Friday evening, She gave a U.S, $500 bond in the same evening,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.