Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1912 — SAY MISSING CLERK SHORT [ARTICLE]

SAY MISSING CLERK SHORT

Bondsmen of Illinois County’s Official Make Discovery After His Absence of Three Weeks.

Aurora, 111., Oct. 18. —Investigation of the accounts of Alfred A. Mottinger, former clerk of Will county and now clerk of the school board, who has been missing for three weeks from his residence in Plainfield, 111., show him to be short more than’s2o,000, according to a report made by his bondsmen. Mottinger is a member and officer of the Masonic order and Republican organization here. Relatives believe him tp have wandered away while deranged temporarily.