University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, November 16. 1977
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Forgery ...
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Caldwell said he had contacted Mitchell on Sept. 9, and had asked him to be at the Senate office the next day to discuss some issues. He said they met in the Senate office on Sept. 10.
Caldwell said that Mitchell the records to ill and they agreed to discuss the records at another time. Caldwell said that as they were walking away from the Union, an $18 check, written by a student to the Senate, fell out of Mitchell's pants. leg
A further search revealed two $2 bills in Mitchell's sack. Caldwell said the money was the result of a theft.
The money was returned to the office
A FEW HOURS LATER, Caldwell called the Senate office to talk to Leben and he said he was ready. He said he hung up and ran to the office. He said that he found Mitchell hurrying away from the office. When he confronted him, they returned to the office and contacted him.
While Leben and Caldwell drew up Mitchell's repayment agreement in one Senate office, Mitchell waited in another office. He also asked that he was going to get a drink of water. Caldwell said he followed him and caught Mitchell stuffing cash under a nearby chair
The total amount of money involved was $208, including the check and the two five-dollar bills. All the money was recovered, Caldwell said.
However, Mitchell denies that he ever
Police seek new insights in homicide
Officers investigating the beating death last week of Vanessa Smith have been reassigned in an attempt to gain new insight into her death, Douglas County Attorney, said yesterday.
Malone said the reassignment could produce new information on the homicide.
Officers investigating the death will be assisted to different aspects of the case, he said.
Smith, 84, was found dead last Tuesday in her home at 823 Kentucky St. by a neighbor. Police said she had been beaten and apparently sexually assaulted. A reward of $1,000 was offered by the Douglas County Reward Fund and an unnamed source.
A letter concerning the homicide was received Monday but the contents have not led to further action.
made arrangements with Caldwell to discuss the Senate's records and that he had ever been back to the Senate office after his resignation took effect Sept. 2,
"As of 2 p.m. Tuesday, we have not received any more letters from the reward offer."
MITCHELL SAID THAT he thought Leben's actions were uncalled for and that he should not have been asked to resign after the voucher incident.
"I had done my job very effectively when I was there," he said.
However, Leben said the voucher incident occurred about the same time that he had been discussed with Amber problem he worked in the business manager's performance.
CALDWELL SAID CHARGES were not pressed because of personal problems it may have created for Mitchell, preventing repayment.
Leben said that in addition to Mitchell's extensive use of sick leave, many financial resources have been provided.
Another reason that the Senate did not pursue the debt any further than the signed agreement, Caldwell said, was because of the possible existence of outstanding personal debts, which would have pre-empted "Mitchell's" Senate debt.
Leben said that any legal action taken to recover the lost money would have ended up costing more than the actual debt. He also said that if the matter would have been settled, the value of the incident would have made it difficult for the Senate to get any of the money back.
LEBEN SAID THAT HE told Mitchell he could not keep the matter private because of the Senate's public records regulation, but he could not make any public announcement.
If Mitchell was to pay the money back, Leben said, he would need a job and publicity on the matter might have prevented him from obtaining employment.
Leben said that several steps had been taken to insure that such misuses of vouchers did not occur again. Books are now kept in ink, he said, and only one signature can authorize use of local funds—the student body president's. Leben also said that the Senate now used a double-check system to authorize vouchers to obtain other funds.
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