Former Clerk of U.S. Court a Passenger by the Jefferson W. A. Chapman, former Clerk of the United States Court (or China, arrived in Shanghai last" Friday morning at about 9° o'clock in the Admiral me str. President Jefferson. Te met at the deck by Mr. Thurston Porter, United States Marshal and Mr. William Van Buskirk, Uni States Deputy Marshal and taken into custody and escorted to the American Gaol, where he is now. awaiting trial on charges of having zzled and converted to his own more then M, $30,000 of the Court funds.
After habit g accepted a decisica of the Federal District Courts vf Washington, although he appealed to the Circuit Court, Chapman was returned to Shanghai under the Removal Act. Officials of King County, Washington, placed him on the President Jefferson in charge of Capt. Nicholls, who in turn delivered him "to the authorities here. A special Iauneh was provided which came to the N.Y.K, Wharf, the party going immediately to the American Consular compound.
Dr, George Sellett, United States istrict Attornty, is prosecuting, Chapman on charges of embezzlement, drawn up cly Mr. L. G. Husar, former District Attorney on July' 24, The case for the Government understood to be ready.
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