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Show THE CITIZEN s miiiiiiminuiiiiiiiiiiiuiiuuiiiiiiiiuinuiiiuiiuiiiiuiimuimiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiuiMmiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiii I.. . 1 OBSERVATION PLANE 1 Shortage Of $2,400 When Green Was Auditor Unless Mr. Bock, the acquisitive young accountant who stole $12,000 when deputy auditor and auditor of Salt Lake City, had confederates who possess influence in our city affairs, he is apt to occupy a prison cell within a few days. This is not to indicate that the authorities who are prosecuting the case intend to thwart the ends of justice; it simply means that there machine. The two always were very close. Bock was taken up by Green and made chief deputy in the auditors office, where he soon began stealing. For years Green pushed Bock to the front and finally elected him mayor with the aid of the Democratic machine. We believe we voice the public disquiet when we say that the citizens have an uneasy feeling that there are gigantic shortages in city and county affairs. The feeling is not unjustified, even though the peculations, in addition to those of Bock, may be petty, such as painting a house with city labor or building porches and walks with city cement and labor. Only a complete investigation, which the Democratic city and county officials are afraid to authorize, can disclose the facts. Green-Bock-Cor-le- ss may be some delay when Mr. Bock finds that he is not receiving the he expected and that the wheels of justice may be halted while he tells all he knows. It is obvious that Mr. Bock, when he insisted that the $10,080 was the total amount of his peculations, was prevaricating. He was not telling all he knew then; perhaps he is not now It is astonishing that there has telling the whole truth. been no investigation of Mayor Bocks There have been persistent rumors contingent fund. Not a word has that Bock was only one of a ring that been said about it by the commiswas robbing the city by various means sioners. during a period of five or six years. The Citizen learns that up to the Mr. Lincoln G. Kelly undoubtedly has time he was trapped Mayor Bock had done his work well, but his audit has been given $4,500 for the contingent been confined to the city. It is time fund. It is a secret fund used by the were audited books that the countys mayor at his discretion. Why it and especially the sheriffs contingent should be secret no one knows, alfund. Moreover, as The Citizen has though city officials use some piffle can robbed in be the ways about its shown, city being against public policy that never are recorded in the aud- to tell. how the contingent .fund is. itors office. ( We are telling nothing spent. Some public officials think it new when wTe say that there are peragainst public policy to tell about sistent reports on the streets that a peculations, but the taxpayers believe complete investigation reaching back they have a right to know how all for half a dozen years will reveal of- - their money are .expended or stolen. shortages of many times $12,000 in the Are the city commissioners afraid and funds. county city to investigate the mayors contingent A shortage due to private use of fund of $4,500? Why. have they not city material and labor can, of course, even mentioned it during the investibe estimated in dollars and cents, but gation of Bocks thefts? Why have only a thorough, investigation will they kept so silent about a fund that show to what extent the city has might easily have been stolen or grossbeen robbed in that fashion. ly misapplied? It transpires that the auditors ofDid Bock use any of the contingent fice was short $2,400 while Mr. Green fund to reimburse the city for a part was auditor. That shows just how ef- of his thefts? ficient Mr. Green, who has been highThe public will not get the truth-ou- t ly honored by the electors since then, of the commissioners unless they really was. During a year or more cry out insistently for a complete inof his term as auditor the office was quiry and unite for action. being robbed. A little later he asked Mayor Ferry to have an audit made Old Auto Numbers and then, On some specious plea, recommended that the proposed inquiry On Thieves Machines be dropped. Will Mr. Bennion, secretary of state, Although he suspected Bock for turn an attentive ear to this story and then answer pertinent queries? years he waited until Bock was elected mayor before he had an audit made; William Trimbarth, a truck gardner, indeed, he helped elect Bock with his was driving to Salt Lake in his ram pro-tecti- on ' i . r States i shackle wagon along the Ogden highway last Sunday. A speeder crashed into the wagon, smashing it and injuring the gardener. Indignant farmers gathered about the speeder and threatened to injure him, but he made big promises of what he would do by way of reparation and they finally released. him on his promise that he would come to Salt Lake, hire a truck and return to take Trimbarths goods to market. The speeder, who gave his name as Johnson, returned to Salt Lake, and disappeared. The number of his machine was 28,938. It had belonged to a prominent Salt Lake man who recently sold his Paige coupe. The buyer, as required by law, obtained a new number at Mr. Bennions office and turned in the old number. The old number appears on a car which probably had been stolen; at all events the driver of the car disappears, leaving no Brown AT SUGAR HOU8E 1081 East 21st 8outh The American 8tore for American People. Catering to Automobile Parties DRIVE DOWN Soda Water Cigars etc. Luncheons, Light till Strong Vigorous Progressive Typifying the high-- e of s t standards modern banking. Walker Brothers Bankers trace. Spurlos Versenkt Will Mr. Bennion inform the public how the old number got out of his Founded 1859 . Member Federal Reserve System office? Either it was stolen or someone in Bennions office is selling cancelled numbers. The state is overrun with automobile thieves, operating as a gang. Their headquarters is Salt Lake City where they have been protected by the authorities. Mr. Bocks public safety agents have been accused of dividing profits with the gang. In many instances stolen numbers have been noted. The man who robbed the Penney store in Davis county had a stolen number. The thief who injured Mr. Trimbarth and smashed his wagon had a number which came from. Mr. Bennions office. Perhaps this is not the only cancelled number which the secretary of states depart- mept has supplied to thieves. Of course, Mr. Bennion is entirely innocent in the matter, except, of course, for whatever element of neglect is involved, but it is time that he investigate what is going On in his department. When a gang of automobile thieves can reach into the Capitol and obtain the means wherewith to conduct its operations Utah is in danger of be- coming 'as unsafe as banditti-riddei J The Beaute Shope NAN C. DOBB . 522-23-2- 4 McIntyre Building Was. 9481 The Rippe Auto Bed and Tent Made in Utah n Mexico. I . . IT WAS ON KIPLING. 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