Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-07-23 | Page 2 | Police Mislay Cash, Delaying Burial 4 Months

Police Mislay Mislay Cash Gash Delaying Burial 4 Months Cash Gash Belonging to Man Mali Killed in Fall Misplaced in Police Police Po Po- Po- Po I lice Station Safe Later Found I While his money rested within the steel walls of the safe at police headquarters hid away In a compartment compartment com corn where It was completely overlooked for four months the body of W W. W V. V W. W Stover 55 who was killed in a faI from a Regent street hotel window March 13 last and anti was nicely embalmed at the ODonnel ODonnell O'Donnell ODonnell O'Donnell ODon nell nel mortuary has been slowly drying drying drying dry dry- ing out until he has almost reached the proportions of a mummy And all this because there was no money to bury v him Around the big safe In the desk sergeants sergeant's quarters tere the police played ring around the rosy singing Button ButtonS button who's got the money because U it was known by all and sundry that when hen the dying ma man was picked up from Crom the street was found In his clothes as well as a bankbook on a Salt Lake bank bap snowing that th he had on deposit In the meantime sear search was made for 01 the dead mans man's relatives but none could be located The ODonnell O'Donnell ODonnell ODon ODon- nell representatives made at headquarters for the money be because because because be- be cause Stovers Stover's corpse was not a particularly plea an companion to have around Maybe George has It the police would say ay But no George didn't have it Maybe Bill knows where it is Finally they decided on a midsummer midsummer midsummer mid mid- summer house-cleaning house or of the sate safe Thursday and lo and behold there I Iwas was the money tucked away In a adeep adeep I deep corner Through some mistake In the entry en the records It had been overlooked There will be an immediate i it belated Interment of Stovers Stover's remains