The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-04
Shortage Of $50. 900 at the San
Francisco Mint.
Books of the Institution Bal
ance to a Dot.
ALL in $4,000 PIECES.
Indicates Money
Has Been Stolen.
Cashiers Accounts Show That
1t Should Be There.

San Francisco, July 4.-Six bags OF
gold. each containing $1,000 in so golu
pieces, have disappeared from the mint
as though spirited away by magic. NO
trace of the thief has been discovered
though Superintendent Leach and ms
force. assisted by Director Of the Mint
Roberts and his staff OF experts. nave
been at work on the mystery since SAT
urday noon, June %, when the snor.ase
was discovered. AT first 1T was SUP
posed that there was an error IN Lt
hooks or in counting the bags, but TX
was soon found that the money hao
been stolen .. ,.,
The annual count of the coin was Pc
s1ln last Friday morning. The mint ohi-
cials to assist in the Work ana aii'-ivte
to have everything correct Wenl Sf ~
the money and accounts JuSt auea,uN N -
the examiners, and during the iuncheon
7 fnr41r Saturday discovered that SIX ga
were missing from the $zo,0VO'Vuu ~ 7o-tt
I In the cashier IS Nault. 7nieiiii S tsl1I ~
Leach was at once Informed ana he
/ notified Director Roberts OF the snoi q
/ age The books were gone over az ouey
! in the expectation Of nnulne az Stlos ,.is
Init il was found that the casnleA
Il hooks balanced with those Of the othtl
] departments and called for the Say,ooe
mat was missing. The officials We're
then. forced to the CONCLUSION 49, 49,
| eouoabody acquainted with the INSIDE
affairs of the mint had taken
fSiTector of the Mint Roberts of Wash
I've have been very reluctant to con-
| clude that a shortage exists. We nave
fought against the peieI 1lat 49, ,l,..,3
4 ANYTHING wrong, but after three uayH
work in checking calculations anu ho-
inc over the count we have stil 10 lacS
the situation of $4,000 less IN com lhe-A-
the books call Tor e
ssr-here appears to be no escape from
tl1s conclusion that some one or more
! rleree,us employed in the mint mas uee1
faitbIess to the trust reposed IN hlln
or them Thirty thousand IN goid was
not taken at a grab. IL was not laAtH
Nv an outsider but by someone VINO
r-as ahle to enter the vault ONLY one
man was supposed to have the comDin
alton to the lock and that was the caAn-
Ter hut possibly others dld nave iN
7 see no possibility of error IN Wnat Was
charged to the. cashier LOT nls =, w y y y
hooks agree with the other department Us
but there is a possibility OF an over
/ ,,a,yY7ent to a deDositor. 1t is impfood'
HE however, that so large an over pas
naent could be made. -.
T2oth Superintendent Leach an III
,-actor T)in9nick declared that suspicion
could not point to Cashier Cole sine.
his hooks were in perfect condition ans
? called for the amount that has peer
e sto's51; W EXTINCTION Is NOTIFIED.
yvashingfon. July A telegram MAJ
e heen received at the mint bureau Ifon
t Director Roberts who is in san Fran
8 cisco. confirming the report OF Sne % %ul7
a ! anDearance of government tunds hon
e the mint in that city he s%tS1 ~
V cashier of that mint is $4,000 short, Du
s eives no particulars Of his lnNesti5e
= fior and ventures no surmise as 70 -u
cause of the shortage AS Mr. HopeI. /.
= IS on the ground, the mint oulciais @ Hel
h decline to speculate as to Wnat ioufa
e nav be pursued for the protection
ha Government.