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Show I $30,000 THEFT I AT SAN FRAN- i CISCO NINT B . H ! San Francisco, Sept. 29-A clrcum- B Btantlal report published hero lato to- M ' day of tho discovery of extensive B thefts in tho United States mint ; brought neither confirmation nor H , denial from tho offlclhls of tho mint. M Superintendent W. H. T. Shanahan H 1,0 recently succeeded Frank Leach H in that Institution, said In responBO to M J oil lnqurles that any report must H corao from Washington. H ) According to tho rumor, which is H Sald to hnvo had origin In tho gossip B of mint employees, a, count of the H' coin stored In tho mint, which has H been In progress for some weeks, has H'l revealed systematic pllforlng from 'l tho sacks. In most Instances the H . J thefts amounted to no moro than two B'il or threo dollars from ono sack, but Hi thcro wero persistent reports todny B I that a bag of Iron washers bad been K found in the vaults, It having been H t substituted for $30,000 gold. B Thirty government agents have H fc been at work on tho count of the coin B vhlch was ordered preparatory to a B ' change In tho office of the stih-trens B urer In this city. Some days will be Bi required to complete the ccimt. H According to tho rumor, suspicion B has been directed to one or more em- i ployes of the mint. |