| Show BUFFALOS TREASURER SUSPENDED Mayor Diehl Takes Summary Action He is Charged With Misappropriation of Funds to tile the Extent of That Every Cent of City Money Will ViII be Accounted For Buffalo N Y sot Nov DIehl today suspended City Treasurer Philip Gerst train froia J c cIn In the notice of oC suspension the mayo mayot m 1 charges chargo Mr Mi Gerst with misconduct ml In office and with having kept Inaccurate mid false taI ta l M hll e c charges chorges that from the tho accounts of ot tho the city treasurer the amount of ot cash on hand to tho the credit of nt the city elt Is OOOO In excess of at the th actual amount The examination of ot the tho treasurers accounts has baa been Jeen going on for several lays days will be bo b continued Specifically th mayor charges charge that Treasurer Gerst borrowed 1 from banks bonks I upwards ef of with which to 10 cover lOver up the file shortage In his hie accounts at nt a d time when an examination was to be made mode that In August last In lit ho he loaned the bank hank of ot the money monc and that nt kt various times during the current year he appropriated to his own on onute ute we moneys belonging b to the city tit tho the aggregate of such sums beIng After ACter he had hod been served s with notice of ot removal Mr lent Gerst raid old The hooks hopka of nie undergo un n ln In lag an nil examination lon Iy by an expert ac uc and nd the r t t will show that tv every ry cent of ot the money IB Ia tn in tho the Or In III the lie of ot tho the mayor or orthe orthO orthe the thO treasurer at It this tila very moment Notwithstanding the t Ie charges of ot the mayor maor the city elt of ot will not lose losea a n penny through my adminis administration l of ot the thi office of ot city treasurer Mayor DIeM Diehl declined to talk nile on the matter further than hail to say ay In reply to a n query nB aK to whether Mr fr Gerst had attempted ta to explain ex the shortage or of oC offered ered to toll what whit use ue use he hud had made of ot the lie money ho he Is alleged to have hae prated I belle he ho hUll has accounted for tor the OOOO but so eo far tar as QS a I know lies has made madeno no effort to explain e lila his use of ot the email emall amounts I believe bellove hi hits hIli bond men have arranged to make good go d any short shortage ago age there may ma be |
