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Show STOLE $68,178. HID GOT BUT WITH IT Former Comptroller of City of Seattle Expert Grafter, According Ac-cording to Report. SEATTLE, Wash.. Julv 12. John .Kiplinger, four years Comptroller of the city of Seattle and chief clerk, for the same period just, preceding and two years chief accountant before that, stole $(5S,l7S.f)l, according to the report, of the expert accountants who have been engaged in an examination of books and accounts of tho department for two months. The report shows that .-rlOO.OOJ.SO should have been accounted for at the expiration of Riplingor's last term. Credits aggregate .:i2,725.Sl. leaving a shortage of .fu'S.lS.Ul. Uiplinger left Seattle the dnv following the close of his second term as Comptroller, March 19, 190(5, aud the shortage was not, discovered dis-covered until May S last. Ho is said to be in Honduras. |