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Show Utah Copper Agent Is Short to the Extent of $17,000 SALT LAKE, April 17 Said to be short $17,000 in his account as agent for the t'tah Copper company in col-I col-I leeting from the company's employes I for Liberty bonds sold to them on the installment plan. Louis F. Wetzel, chief clerk at the company's Magna plant, is being sought on a warrant charging him with embezzlement A complain?, sworn to by Charles : T. S. Parsons of ihe Utah Copper company, charging Wetzel yvith embezzlement, em-bezzlement, was filed in the office of the county attorney yesterday morn-ling. morn-ling. H specifically alleys that he appropriated to his own use $100 paid to him on October 30, 1918, In eight $20 bills, by an employe of the company com-pany on Liberty bonds purchased. Hla collections, involved in the alleged shortage, range from March, 191S, to February, 1919. Wetzel is said to have been seen leaving the city Saturday night In a new Seripps-Booth automobile. No trace of him further than this could be found yesterday. To permit its employes to purchase Liberty bonds on the installment plan, the Utah Copper company bought outright out-right such bonds as the employes pledged themselves to take, and intrusted in-trusted Wetzel with the matter of collecting col-lecting the installment payments from j the employes. So far as is known, ac-i ac-i cording to the information given 10 Paul Hi Ray, assistant county attorney, attor-ney, no bonds are missing in connec tion with the shortage of funds charged against Wetzel. |