Show VOLUNTEERS Quartermaster at Presidio Questions Alleged Freud i HE MAKES A STATEMENT I d Post Commander Artillery Corps De dares Talk of Fraud Is All Hot Nevertheless San Francisco Detectives Detec-tives Manage to Find Government Goods in the SecondHand Stores Police Officials Think Army Officers Will Find Some Things Difficult of Explanation as Evidence is Strong D I 1 San Francisco June 13Capt AVr > Kimball quartenznCr U SA post I quartermaster atthc Prcsldjo J made thc following statement today In regard I re-gard to the alleged frauds said to be perpetrated in the sale of quarter masters supplies belonging lo the Got ernment S I am the officer most concerned In this mailer yet no one has as yet made Ian I 1 any inquiry of me I uii the only bonded officer at the post and the only accountable and disbursing officer Jf there has been anything Irregular I would be pleased to give all the assistance assist-ance In my power In the search for I the guilty men if there are any All the Government things sold in the I pawnshops arc sold by discharged soldiers from the returning volunteer regiments Col J B Rawles artillery corps I post commander said All this talk of fraud Is perfect rot People have been nagging for a year on the same I subject I have been ware of the soldiers selling their clothing for t longtime I long-time One of the puzzling and perpler I lag things In army management Is to keep the soldiers from selling their clothing 1 i am confident that no quar termastersergeant or civilian employee em-ployee Is implicated In the selling of even a shoestring A Aariant has beenissued for the arrest ar-rest ot Abe Abrams a son of Louis Abrams the secondhand dealer who with another son Is In custody Detective Reynolds reported to the Federal authorities today that he found twenty pairs of Government shoes in a Sacramento street store last night Capt Seymour of the loqal deloc llve force said todav No one ran say In vlewof all that has Ijnnsplred within the past two days that frauds have not been going on Detective Reynolds reports to me that the investigation in-vestigation has made a stir among the secondhand stoics and those who deal in the class of goods stolen from the army and that those who have not yqt been visited by Col Maus are hurrying lo cover wIth the Government Govern-ment goods that they have The announcement that a warehouse ware-house full of stolen goods had boon found which was made on the authority author-ity of CapU Seymour has been found to be erroneous The person who informed In-formed the Captain was told to telephone tele-phone that the property recovered was being stored In the locality mentioned but misunderstanding his instructions sent the message wrong < |