Chinese Charged with Crime Committed in Nanking Ching Vu-shu, a former Chinese accountant of the Nanking office of the Texas Company (China) Ltd., who has been wanted by the District Court in Nanking for a long time but who was only recently arrested in Shanghai was formally charged yesterday in the First Special District Court with misappropriating more than $24.300 from the foreign firm during his tenure of office between 1930 and 1936. The firm gave a detailed written report on the case but the hearing had to be indefinitely postponed pending the decision to be made by the Supreme Court regarding the jurisdiction of the case as the crime was committed in Nanking. A The court was told that although the head office of the firm is located in Shanghai the crime was committed in its Nanking office. It was also pointed out by the police that the firm had sued the accused in the Nanking District Court. Since Nanking is now an occupied area, the question of jurisdiction confronted both the police and court. Judge Hsiao, therefore, had to postpone the hearing pending the final decision on this matter.
The accused was said to have fled from his firm some years ago after misappropriating the money. The Nanking tribunal issued a warrant for arrest but he could not be located until recently when he arrived in Shanghai from Hongkong in a destitute condition. It was also revealed in court that although the total sum misappropriated amounted to $24,350.30 he had returned a small part of it after the discovery of the crime,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.