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Grand Jury Expected To Hear . Wherity Case Next.-Week ■In Merced Couniy'Filing at Merced of a '‘surprise audit’’. which showed* that various Justice of the peace' nlili were do [ HnqufthtMa their ■ payments to the county threo. months after, the an* nuat audit had been'made by the firm of Cunningham , WJet was tho principal development during the last' twenty-faur hours In' the Situation raised by the auditors regarding the laxity In'the bookkeeping methods of the ’ Merced County justice* of peace.The audit, laid before-the supervisors at Merced yesterday, was made under the authority‘granted by the 'board when ihlt;r. regular audit wfls-fHcd'threemoriths ago.'Shortages Itemaln . -The report filed yesterday alleges:Judge II. Boyd •. Smith of Uos ralos.has failed to turn hi to the county treasury 1373 collected In flnra during August, September and October.Judge \V, IT. Oaburne of Atwntcr cm $138 to the t7canory ior fines collected during the saino period,Judgo F. 1L Cronwcll of Los Banos owes $367 to the'county In fines.The Merced County grand Jury la expected to meet r.«t week to receive a report of the auditors on a further Investigation into the case of J. T. Wherity, resigned Livingston Justice, regarding whom the general audit said •'the court’s failure to properly record the amount of fines In his fee book would seem to Judicata that this t official has been appropriating! * county fund* for the furtherance ‘ Of personal interests.'1Denies ChargesWherity, who after resigning relumed to his trade 9a a carpenter, to-day denied any intent to defraud anyone, «ind laid his shortage, which he. said he made good, to lack of bookkeeping training. JI *1 was unfitted for the Job,” I.Wherity Mid.“I had never had any bookkeeping training, and my record books were a muddle. I • have always Hted an honest Jlf, and have fried to do what is lair. I never intended to defraud anyone”Allege Discrepancies Auditor* refused to reveal the findings of ihelr special investigation into the Whcrity cose, other than to say that they . have been In communication with about r-a dozen persons who say they paid ri fine* which were not recorded on i v Wherity's books. IU'berUy d this may have been f £ true, but reiterated his itAtcnifnt ’ that the case Involves only poor bookkeeping, and not any intent at fraud.—-M-*-
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Modesto News Herald
Modesto, California, US
Fri, Nov 16, 1928
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