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Show GENERAL. A Treasury Swindler. Harrisburg, Pa., 7. At the scpsion of the state treasury investigating committee1 to-day, Mr. Geist, editor of the LancaHer Express, testified that he had received information that Srsitft Treasurer Mackev had drawn 4 per cent, interest on an average deposit de-posit of $-0,000 in the bank of Stcti-man, Stcti-man, Clarkson & Co., of Lancaster, in 1809. Geist declines to give the namo of his informant unless compelled com-pelled by law. G. A. G. Waddcl, chief clerk in tho auditor general's ' department, testified that vouchers for disbursements from June, 1873, to June, 1874, by S. H. Walters, deceased, de-ceased, late superintendent of public buildings and grounds, amounting to $22,000, were not in the office when Auditor General Temple took charge, . and cannot bo discovered, after a thorough Bearch. The absence of the vouchers makes impossible to tell how the money was applied. No other witnesses wero examined. |