Show in the justice court attorney A T schroeder returned h home om c yesterday from coalville Co alville where he has been for several days as counsel for the defendant in an interesting te and peculiar case the nant was miss kate chase formerly a school teacher but recently manager of the farmers Far mera mercantile company at and the territory of utah was plaintiff plaintiff for some time past it appears that the business being managed by miss chase had bad been running behind as country stores often do and ultimately the young lady discovered that she was behind in the sum of about 1700 she said nothing about the matter to the company however hoping 0 that business would improve and that the accruing profits would patch up the shortage it was not long though until the company discovered the existence of the shortage and they immediately had their fair manader manager 0 arrested for obtaining gnp goods by false pretenses subsequently slie she was also charged with embezzlement and falsifying aa counts the hearing came off before justice ball at coalville Co alville and the charge of obtaining goods under false pretenses was dismissed on motion of the defense on the ground that the justice lacked jurisdiction next came the charge of embezzlement and a demurrer on the usual grounds was sustained and twenty four hours given in which to amend the complaint not having been amended in the time specified it was also dismissed miss chase was then cal called ledfor for preliminary hearing 0 on the charge and was held to the grand jury miss chase aks talk of retaliating by instituting 0 a suit for damages salt lake herald |