Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-15
.SHOUSE HELD TO
SUPERIOR COURT
Is CHARGED WITH ISSUING FIG
TITI0US CHECK
ALLEGED TO HAVE HYPNoTlZED
PRETTY WIFE
-
Offers No Defense and Is Returned to
County Jail in Default of
Fifteen Hundred Dol
lars Ball

Less than an hour was necessary yes
terday for Justice Summerfield to hear
sufficient testimony on which to hold
%. Allan Shouse to the superior court
for trial on a charge Of issuing fic-
titious check. Bail was fixed at $500,
which Shouse was unable to furnish,
and he was returned to the county jail.
He offered no defense and the cross
examination of witnesses by his at
torney, Howard S. Clewett, was ex-
ceptionally brief
Mrs. Nellie Shouse, the young wife
of the defendant, who is believed to
have passed the check at the Boston
store while laboring under the hypnotic
influence of her husband, was the first
witness called by 10. j. Fleming, VINO
was associated with Frank Blair, dep
uty district attorney, in the prosecu-
ton She was not permitted to TESTIFY
further than that she and her husband
left Los Angeles for San Francisco
April Is, the day after Byron Campbell,
cashier of the Boston store, had paid
her $249.60 in return for the check
bearing the purported signature of r.
A. Mckee and Endorsed by Shouse.
Mckee Fictitious Name
A search, covering the record for
three years, in directories and the great
register of voters of Los Angeles coun-
ty failed to disclose the name of r. A.
Mckee, according to the testimony of
Louis Duni, a detective from the dis
tret attorneys office, who was among
the first witnesses called. TO fur
Their prove that the signature was fic-
titious, employees of the Bank of South
ern California, on which the check was
drawn, told the court no such person
as r. A. Mckee ever had an account
at the bank.
Byron Campbell, cashier of the Bos-
ton store, said he cashed the check,
recognizing in Mrs. Shouse, who pre-
scented it, an employee who had worked
in the store two years and whose serv-
ices had ended only week before.
The rest of the proceedings were de-
voted to efforts going to prove that the
check was in Shouse's handwriting,
persons who are believed to have suf-
fered financially at Shouses hands
being the witnesses called for this pur-
pose. Among them was DR.. w. Il. Nc
Arthur, who was given a check for
$14.50 by Shouse, part of the amount
being due for medical services. APP
parently Shouse had in this case again
used his pretty wife to further his own
ends, DIR. Macarthur stating that he
Mrs. Shouse the day before he received
the check.
Physician Loses Money
1.-The amount due me was So, and in
return for the check, which bore the
signature of r. E. Streeter, l gave him
my personal check for $780," said DR..
Macarthur. at was returned unpaid
from the Chicago bank on which it was
drawn, and in addition to the loss of
the amount on my check I was COM
PEELED to pay $2S5 protest fees"
Another witness was S. A. Bardell
grocer at 1928 Romeo street, who said
Shouse obtained $40 from him while
representing himself as the agent for a
collection concern, statement he aft
erward found to be false.
Attorney Clewett moved for a dis
missal OF the case, contending the evil
dence was insufficient. but Justice
Summerfield held there was ample rea-
son to believe that Shouse was the
maker of the fictitious paper and or
dered him held to the superior court.