The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-05
SHORT IN HIS ACCOUNTS.
He Travels About With Big
Sums of Money, Which
Arouses Suspicion.
THE STATEMENT OF ACCUSED.
He Says That the Supervisors Are
Trying to Reach the Guilty
Parties Through Him.

SAN DIEGO, CAL, April A. When
Harry W. We1neke, County Tax Collector,
turned over his books of Office on January
Z, there was dispute regarding the books
and the County Auditor claimed there
was a discrepancy of $1,000 in Weineke's
accounts. The latter asserted that his
cash was all right, and that possibly the
books were in error. Experts were ap-
pointed, one of them J. P. McQuaid,
Weineke's chief deputy, and errors amount
ing to $500 have been found SO far.
Weineke went to Los Angeles some days
ago and suffered an hysterical in the rail
road car. He was taken to the Receiving
Hospital and searched, and the report re-
ceived here is that $500 was found seereted
upon his person.
This caused Chairman Jasper of the
Board of Supervisors to take immediate
steps for his arrest.
A warrant was wired to Los Angeles, but
Weineke was then on his way home, and
arrived late last night. He was arrested
Immediately and gave $1,000 bonds for an
examination Saturday on the charge of
willfully and feloniously emitting to pay
over to the Treasurer certain county funds
in his possession.
Soon after A. F. Cornell took charge of
the Tax Collectors Office, January 7, he
found condition of affairs that prompted
him to object to having the balance due
from the office under the old administra-
ton charged to him by the Auditor. Cor
nell made the board acquainted with the
situation, and two men were appointed to
go over the tax-receipt stubs. They found
numerous instances of taxes having been
paid by property-owners and receipts
given, but no record of business in Office.
This discrepancy now amounts to about
$780, and the work is not finished. Other
experts have found shortage in their
books of $1,000, making in all about $500
which Weineke should have paid over to
the county before he went out of Office. The
Supervisors have been cognizant of this
state of affairs for some time, and the
District Attorney has been kept posted.
while it has been the opinion of the
board for some time past that measures
should be taken to secure the county's in
terests," says Chairman Jasper, Mr..
Weineke has appeared to be in such
straits that no way was open by which we
could recover the amount of the
Weineke represented to Supervisor Mason
that he did not have $40 in the world
and was, in fact, a beggar. So when we
received information from Los Angeles
yesterday that Weineke was carrying $500
around with him, we made up our minds
that he should be arrested and made to
give some accounting of the affairs of the
Tax Collectors Office
''The District Attorney, in fact, stated to
the board that the interests of the taxpay-
ers and of the county in general demanded
summary action. Acting upon that advice,
and as chairman of the board, swore to
the complaint against Weineke this after
noon"
Weineke was asked to give his side of
the case. He said he had no knowledge
of the shortage in his office, and that he
paid over $4,000 more than his office had
been charged with. He added that if there
was really shortage, it was caused by
some of his clerks, and not himself He
believed that the Supervisors knew this
and intended to get at the guilty parties
through him.
A report was current to-day that one of
Weineke's clerks was suspected, and that
his arrest would follow at once. McQuaid
was discharged as an expert on April l.