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Show ITS THEFT OFMONEY FROM SCHOOL FUNDS i N Winter, Clerk of Board, Says He Used It to Pay Notes on Land in . Salt Lake I jELllToF SICKNESS T AND AGED MOTHER I tsserts He Intended Paying (the Money Back, but Was Pursued by 111 Luck Th ngs are not always what they cm Out n Cran te a cozy br ck eot Tge nestles a a camp of shrubbery 8 owner H N W nter m ght well be ns dered a man for whom the cui f happ ness rune full But for three ears H Tm W nteras slept but 1 ght Ha has started at every footfall jat broke the m dn ght s lence He "as been obsessed w th the fear that leh n ght prowler n ght be an off cer t the law come to call him to account It embezzlement of the school funds trusted to h s care For seven years has been Clerk of the Gran t board t cducat on In the last three years i has m sarpropr ated more than WOO He also has been accused of set J)g f re to the bu 11 ng in wh eh tho cords are kept to cover h s cr n e Qle frankly adm ts tak ng the money .he arson he den es las Made Confession jW nter s wr tten confess on of the jSBappropr at on of funds is in the nds of members of the Gran te d s ct board of educat on The money is taken n three nstallments accord b to "W nter The f rst theft amounted ujlabout $900 The second was a 1 ke nount The th rd was n excess o (,000 JV nter b first fall from grace came fee years ago and was followed by other each succeeding year jW nter s own etory of h s trouble ln a way pathet c It savors of the ''Jpcrences ot a nan who chases a "jA. reporte of The Tr bune rang the 0 boll of the W nter cottage at 3ol0 luth Stato street shortly before m d Kit last n ht There was no answe Id he rang aj,a n Then the o was a ufflo through the front of tho house jd a furt ve peel ng through several pdo s if" a y - in er an e to t e doo ITo f c ad In pajamas H s tee h c lat rd as he de nandod hy ho as d "bed but e d d ot appear rpr ed c he seen ed re eved Jor h n 'Pees nghts e e o r T e w or t oppened anl to le st brou t droits Taking Money Y! 1 t00k thc n one5 be bd d but B a e ded to p t It a I u a e epa d t ad a cer a nd rni .red 0 t as, I an c p e C Pna then c tod ot s oto t to a 0 some S1 ' Lake a e tate He I had sckness n fan ' Shte was ea t ear t ff?nd, f a ear c at e s ftS an' und 1 hav8 re " eJ jw J otes we e d o t pert J ,y Ju 1 bor owcd and I X a, ,a. ad It ba k J t so e low t lings ent ro ? r Is A 1 80 er RI"d so ons s I d keep t e aud to s a a t t a dup ca e o n, o n , es " he bu d g ho s unl 1 e,1 tno 8 unts off I nev k ape e au1 0 5 a e I ere as o 8' ' ,k t e nonov I to 1 t en o vni. i.A d ev p d o et ne ".sood B t I o a h en ac chno "l "? 1 1 to the u an e f . f ana, 1 be eve I a e o e 1 L 1 pcct ' o rl T J!"?,," fev da it Binsrs -nere set p (1 I ums an al e ldencc s aga s foperty in Vifes Name ir admltted to tho repo ter what n tLaleadv tod tn toard of eduea ina he was penn e s s nlfe onn i 1 'ln P ope t T,W,d 0T e 7 bune t g I ha hJl5a t0 Bet ne mo e back and boa d, w 1 be gad t6 give out a 0ontinued on Page Tliree.) SCHOOL BOARD CLERK UDMITSTIIlFOiS (Con tinned from Page One.) s gned statement at the proper time Just now we want to gi e him a chance to get the monej We have not promised him any immun ty Personally I be e e him in some way responsib e for the f re but he denies it. bo we cannot take any ac tion until the money matter s set tied He was tacitly accused of con nection with the fire at the board meeting but den ed it. The board meeting at which the d s c osures were made was held Thursday n ght. Aud tors had been at work on the books for several weeks Fire Interrupts Work "W thin a week after they started worb fire damaged the school build ng Three weeks ater another f re resu ted n an investigation It de eloped that the books were left out of the safe, and it is sa d they wee saturated w th coal o 1 T e schoo district Is said to have been pa d more than $3500 in nsurance for losses In the f re Pinkerton detectives were emp oyed and. tl e r report resu ted In the res gna tion of Winter as clerk 0 Members of the board sa W nter ob jected to an aud t. This W nter denies But the board as a board w 11 make nc off cial statment So far as the board Is off cay conce ned W nter is an inno cent citizen w o owes the school dis rlct money The members of the board are E R Morgan pres dent J S Lnze Taylors i le C W Aldrich Garf eld J W Tipton Granite C H. Skidmore is su perintendent. Unt 1 a new c e k is ap pointed he will do the work on the books |
