The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1908-05-07
SHORTAGE GROWS
John A. MCOerm0tt Said to be
$4,000 More TO the Bad
LATER DISCOVERIES
Bank Examiner finds MCDermott'S
Accounts Getting Worse and
Warmers the Same

The Minneapolis Journal of May :
prints the following article relativt
to the shortage in the accounts OF
John A. McDermott and Fenton g.
Warner, former state oil inspectors:
John A. McDermott, former state
oil inspector, will be called upon to
,-pay $4,000 additional to the state be-
cause of shortages just found in the
accounts OF the office for the time OF
his incumbency. =
This Is the statement Of state Of
ficers who are informed regarding the
Investigation that has been conducted
by the state public examiners de-
Dartment. 1t is understood that in
the final report, now almost ready to
be presented to Governor John A.
Johnson, the shortages charged
against Fenton G. Warner, who pre-
ceded McDermott as oil inspector, will
be. reduced from $4,000 to about 49,
600.
This final report Is based upon
sworn statements from the various
stations of the Standard Oil company
and SIMILAR information from some of
the independent companies showing
all fees paid by them to the state oil
inspectors for Minnesota since 1908.
''The first reports of the state pub
liz; examiner upon the shortages OF
McDermitt and Warner included only
the business done in the so-called
Minneapolis district OF the Standard
Oil company which includes the twin
cities and the nearby. portion OF the
state. Beside it's Minneapolis office
the Standard Oil company has district
offices at Mankato, Duluth, Fargo, n.
L. and La Crosse, Wis, all of which
distribute oil in Minnesota and pay
fees to the Minnesota inspection de-
partment. BY means of subpoenas
directed against the managers, the
state officers have secured sworn
statements now from all of these sta
tiols and have been able to complete
their record of shortages.
Anton Schaefer, state public ex-
aminer, has been engaged for a week
in the preparation of his final report
on the shortages, and it is understood
that the report is finished although
Mr.. Schaefer declines to make its con-
tents public until he has first pre-
scented it to Governor Johnson.
among the state officers it is gen.
orally understood that the additional
shortage to be charged against John
A. McDermott on account of his col
Iections in the Duluth, Fargo, Map-
$500. His alleged shortage as Civ
Ell in the former report, was $685.
T., including fees and salaries held to
kato and La Crosse district is about
have been allowed illegally to his dep
uties and himself, and that amount
has been refunded to the state. With
the newly discovered items the total
of his alleged shortage is $10,699.75
1.-THE reduction in the amount of the
shortage charged against Mr.. Warner
depends upon items which, because of
incompleteness of the records or ques-
ton as to the law were in doubt and
were included by the public examiner
in his first report as shortages. These
items consist in part of allowances
for outshipments, for which no youch-
ers had been filed, and in part of
disputed expense accounts, which now
have been omitted from the shortage
account by advice of the attorney gen.
erals Department.
Since the above was put in type the
detailed report of Examiner Schaefer
has been filed with the attorney gen.
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