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Show 'FUNIS SENT TO RSLISF . Of SAN PRflNOSCO B3E) : NOT REHCH COf JfJITTEE SAN FRANCISCO, Nor. 14. The i Chronicle says today: tA new investigation is progressing " in the course of developments in the loeal. graft scandal. . It now appears that many sums of money, large and re til, that were sent from different States to San Francisco for the relief of the sufferers from the April calamity, never reached the relief committee, - "E. J. Henry, Detective Burns and over 100 Government agents have been making an investigation. "President Roosevelt is the moving spirit behind the inquiry and he declares de-clares that no man guilty of diverting the relief funds shall escape justice. "The cases eome with the jurisdiction of the Federal authorities because of the interstate character of the postal service, which it is alleged was erimi-nallv erimi-nallv tampered with. fA considerable sum of money. was also sent through the express companies and the Wells-Fargo company is now investigating the disappearance of 110.580 sent in one package from, the citizens of Searchlight, Nev., which the relief committee say they never received re-ceived and which the company says was delivered to the representative of ' the committee to whom it was addressed. "The crime of forgery is said to be included in the offenses of the raiders of the relief contributions. "It is said that in the aggregate the stealings will amount to a million dollars." |