The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-13
Ex-Treasurer Grimes Is Watt
ing for Summons.
WILL SEE FINDINGS.
ROWett Makes Statement About
"A. R. Brown Case.
Says Garden City Check Bears
KelIy's Endorsement.

Governor HOch and his private Sec
retary F. L. Williams, are hard at
work today or the report of the firm
Of Haskins & Sells on the condition of
the state treasury. They have been
shut up all this forenoon in the gov
ernor's private office, and are sup
posed to be preparing a summary for
the public.
There is a rumor this morning that
the shortage which is entirely unex-
planned will amount to much more
than has heretofore been reported.
Frank Grimes, ex-state treasurer.
upon whom the heavy burden of the
shortages is likely to fall, said this
They have promised that I shall be
called in and given a chance to look
this report over before it is made pub
lie think that is only fair, and I be-
lieVe that 1 am entitled to know what
the findings are in time to make what
ever statement seems necessary. So
far the governor has not notified me-
but I am holding myself in readiness
to respond at any time
Assistant State Auditor James Ma
ton this morning emphatically denied
the report that was printed in a KAN
sas City paper favorable to Kelly pur-
porting to give an explanation of how
the state property stamp happened
to be erased from the backs of certain
coupons. This statement, as printed
was as follows;
Some of the coupons found by Mr..
Morris are said to have had the words,
state property erased from their
backs. This may not be of conse-
quence and may not affect the findings
of the accountant. Occasionally the
clerks in the auditors Office have
made mistakes and stamped coupons
which did not belong to the state, and
| it was necessary to erase the stamped
words. There was a case of this kind
in the auditors Office about year
ago.
Mr.. Nation says: ''This statement
/ is unqualifiedly false. We have never
! erased a state property stamp from
| the back of any coupon. When a
/ bond comes here, 1t is supposed to be
+ the property of the state and we
/ stamp it accordingly. No erasures
4 have ever 4hsen made in this Office so
+ long as I have been connected with
it,
It remains to be seen from the report
how extensive arethe alleged fraudulent
+ erasures from the backs of coupons
I1Owett Makes a Statement.
Charles Rowett the. ex-state account
/ ant who made the first examination of
Kelly's office, and found the large short
ages, has given out statement correct
/ ing a story which recently appeared in
| a Kansas City paper concerning the "A
| R. Brown transaction. The Kansas
! City paper stated that Mr.. Morris, the
! present accountant, had been in New
] L
! den City money was really RENTED to
/ T T. Kelly. This point was fully de-
| termined in the Rowett report The
4 money was traced directly into Kelly's
hands, and was not heard from again
until the mysterious Mr.. A. R Brown
sent in his check covering the shortage
1 after the accountants had commenced
their work Mr.. Rowett says;
referring to the item in the star
/ January II in regard to the Kelly re-
4 port I find that your Topeka CORES
] pOndent was wrongly informed in the
matter. The following is briet cpl
/ tome from my report.
.sSfxty-six coupons due July 1, 1903,
/ a draft was remtited by the treasurer
/ of Garden City to the fiscal agency at
| New York on August 3, 1903, to take up
ssThe 66 coupons were sent by T. r
/ Kelly along with three other lots OF
! coupons (other counties) on July 2, 1903,
I with a request that a check be sent TO
/ r. T. Kelly personally
/ ION August g. 1903, the National city
hank of New York (state fiscal agency
/ RENTED to T. T. Kelly a check for 81
4O250 in payment Of Garden City cou-
a1The check was made payable to the
+ order of T. T. Kelly, indorsed by T. n
/ Kelly and further Endorsed by I. T.
4 Kelly state treasurer, etc
THE letter of T. T. Kelly, sending the
The letter of the National City bank
| sending the check to T. L. kelly
THE check sent to T. T. Kelly.
4These original documents were shown
/ to me when I was in New York
/ And in conformity with my request
/ il,e73 10 me with a letter signed by A
| Kavanagh. assistant cashier, and dated
/ October 2, 1904 IL.
aDuring the examination draft for
| e1 40 "a was received by Roy Ritchie
! fassisfant treasurer) from A r.
Brown dated August q, 1904, in pay
| ment Of Garden City coupons, due July
| /. 1903. and paid into the state treasury
/ C2 months after the coupons had been
Maid into the fiscal agency, and then re-
/ mitted to T.. T. Kelly.
i CHARLES ROWETT,
Garden City, Kan.