| Show I ATKINS MAKES GOOD SHORTAGE Deposed American Street De Dc Department Clerk Says Safe It Was Robbed COULD BE OPENED WITH KNIFE Hut thu When Asked kell to 10 Open Ollen It St Leger on aim Having Hie lime Key licy He Which He Ill I l Claimed Jo Could ot lt Find FindT T St I Leger Atkins deposed chief clerk cleric of oJ o Jake h street supervisor sor SOl has haa explained It all ull Ills safe safo has hUH been robbed Further than that T St Leger Luger says ho he will vIII make mako his hit good by handing a u check for tor 3 t to anybody who wh will receive It Jake JalO Raleigh wont take nIce tho the money mOlley and nd ho told lold Atkins as as much when he offered It to him yesterday This morning however Atkins pro pre prevailed valium upon Ullon Sandy Fowler Fowier to Mayot Muot to accept und and holu oha the tho missing which ho hat turned over overto to tu Mr M h Fowler Fowier In cash Atkins at lit time the same salute time limie made munde the statement that Councilman uc IlC Ion In uncovering the tho shortage was Wua prompted by ann ana pait t of ot the th light fight waged by hy that gentleman who has hM long hong since silice announced that lie he m lit I utter lIfter both and und Atkins scalps T 1 St I t Leger declares that four tour or five Ave times thames his sate safe has hai hu been beon robbed lie He says S that oftentimes he Ime has opened his allied in tho tie only emily to that th t someone lies has melt ben there before him were scattered about he hmo says and mu sometimes windows have huu been Olen open Tho sate safe had been robbed ro bed of and anmol smaller amounts on other oilier occasions Atkins In explaining the robbery declares that the thue safe sate which Is II nn un affair may maybo maybe bo be easily opened with a u knife blade blado SOMETHING LEAKY There Is something leaky In lit Atkins explanation declares one of ot thu tho inter interested Cited ested parties Speaking of or tho the ex ox explanation e he asked this timId question loll ilmy Wh It If tInt the sold safe can be bo opened with willi witha a u Knife did Atkins fumble In hut his Ms pockets when wilen ho ito was wait asked to tu open olen the safe saCo und anti declare that ho tue had hiatt lost osithe the key Ier What did that mutter If It the tite sate safe might bo be opened with a knife Surely someone In III the crowd hud had a Knife Then why did dill he ime go all tho the wu wa homo and und return to say Buy su thoU that he ime hunt hat lost lo lt tho time key koy What If ho hue hall hail lost the Ohio key ko ho lie surety surely could find n a 1 knife somewhere in the tie county building No Atkins will have to think again and explain u n little more clearly clearl Ills His an 1111 answers sels so i far fo will not hold water ATKINS EXPLANATION Atkins said last night In tho Ito way ot or explaining his losses Several times 1 I have hae como corno down to the tho omeo In tho the morning and have found round tho the dour door unlocked and often otten a II window has been beon open Time The sate sale door dour I have hao also found foun open It Is an lIn old Key safe and the thu blade of o a knife will easily turn tho lock locI 1 day to day dllY J 1 l have huc kept my III poll tax ta receipts receipt In Inthis Inthis this safe and have often otton discovered that time the amount I had placed there thero tho tile night before Was gone sono tIme the next morning Lust November I spent sev several se oral eral evenings In lit watching tho from front tho the city elty und anti county building grounds In lii the hope to fo the burglar but my nay efforts were In lit vain oln WOULD NOT BELIEVE HIM lIIoI When ho Ito was WM asked why ho he tell someone Jak RaleIgh for tur Instance about his loss lOlls Atkins Aikins said saidI I know that It Il would do no good goodas as nobody would believe me tutu and und 1 I hud had to just bear tho me loss If It you know knew you ou were losing money mone from the thc safe Cu why you put It elso ciu ciuI I hud imad no Ito place olo cl o to put It II I Iwas Iwas was afraid to keep It home hommie ho III 0 Atkins has hils explained that ho Ito only Issued receipts re for cash out of ot this particular receipt book and therefore ho did lIld not hot tumble trouble himself to specify In lit the tho stubs whether tho thu payment was with labor or oi money monc REPORT m J OnT SOME SOlLE TIME TIBIE TODAY The Tue city attorney boa hM gone gono over At Atkins t kins books anti and wIlt will report to tho the street committee and the tue finance com conI committee milleo some time today Pending tho the investigatIon by b tho the committee after It tins hus imn Atkins books boo Iv In III Its pos POl possession session no further action will wilt t lie Ita a taken |
