Thousands missing from Penn Center accounts

ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Authorities are sifting through the financial records of a national historic site on St. Helena Island after $10,000 was reported missing.

The Beaufort Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/w2koUDFT ) that the Penn Center’s director, Walter Mack, reported accounting discrepancies to the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office last week.

The center was once the Penn School, founded in the Civil War and one of the nation’s oldest schools for freed slaves.

A sheriff’s spokeswoman says the money may have been taken in the past four months.

Mack says the center’s attorneys have advised him not to comment.

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Information from: The Beaufort Gazette, http://www.beaufortgazette.com