Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1895 — MINT SHORTACE $90,000. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MINT SHORTACE $90,000.

Something Over That Amount Makes the Total -of the Loot. Superintendent-Mason of the Government assay office in New York has been in full charge of the mint scandal inves«

tigation at Carson, Nev., for two weeks, and it is understood that he has completed his investigation and forwarded his report to Washington. The total short-/ age will reach a trifle over $90,000, which] is due to the stuffing! of the bullion deposits with gold bricks. It is understood, also, that his report will exonerate entire-

ly the present administration from any wrong doing. The only loss discovered since the present administration came into power was one bar of gold valued at about SBOO, and there is good reason to suppose that this was taken by a part of the same gang that manipulated the goldbrick trick under the other administration. Just as soon as these discoveries of fraud were reported to the Treasury Department, which was about the middle of February, three of the shrewdest detec-

tives in the secret service were sent immediately to Carson City. They were not long in getting on the track of the offenders. They discovered that several of them were still employed in the mint, while the chief culprit had left the service. They then set about locating h : m. It was found that he had gone to San Francisco, where he will be arrested at once. His arrest has only been delayed in order to secure further evidence, and if he should make the slightest attempt to leave San Francisco he would be apprehended immediately.

SEPT. ADAMS.

THE LOOTED MINT AT CARSON, NEV.