City Treasurer Decamps as Embezzlement Scandal Rocks Seattle
City Treasurer Adolph Krug has fled the city after an audit revealed a $20,000 deficit in his accounts.
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The treasurer of the city of Seattle, Adolph Krug, has decamped, short in his accounts $20,000. Seattle's coterie of reformers are expensive fellows, after all. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has shown the power of the free press. It discredited a denial of the charge that the treasurer Krug was short in his accounts. The result has proven it was right. A report of Friday says that nearly everyone in Seattle is fleeing from the city, including Mr. Krug, if he has not already made his way to parts unknown to avoid personal contact. Mayor Ronald and others appear on the list of borrowers of $1,000. John Considine, a dance contractor and keeper of a variety dive, is on the list of those in debt to the treasurer, and other prominent men are in the long list of city debtors. Many loans are purportedly uncollectible.
“Seattle's coterie of reformers are expensive fellows, after all.”
Public corruption and the entanglement of city officials with private business interests, including those running late-night 'variety dives,' remain a recurring theme in Seattle's political history. This scandal highlights the persistent struggle for transparency in a growing city.
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