Show Flipper Denies San Antonio Texas 7At the opening open-ing of the court this morning Flipper made the following statement of the first charge and its specifications in his case I declare to you in the moat solemn and most impressive manner possible that I am perfectly innocent in every way shape and form that I have never by myself or by another appropriated converted con-verted or applied to my own use a single dollar or penny of government money or permitted it to be done or authorized any meddling with it whatever The funds for which I was responsible I kept in my quarters in my trunk because I felt more secure to have them in my own i custody On May 2d I received s telegram tele-gram from General Small not to transfer any funds as he intended being absent from Ran Antonio This I construed to apply to everything pertaining to the funds as I was not informed that he left same one to attend to routine business there During his absence I submitted my fund regularly to the commanding officer for inspection I did not make a statement in consequence of the telegram of May 2d I thought it unnecessary and discontinued till June The accumulated funds after verification were put in the trunk and it was not examined until July 8th When referred to for the customary inspection I then discovered a discrepancy of 1540 I did not know what to do but chose to put in my own checks for the amount intending to deposit personally in the bank before required to remit the check expected my company in from the field on July 10th I knew they had two months pay in the checks and thought I could get what I wanted The post trader cashed them before I could I then relied ion getting money from the publisher of my book who had promised it I was disappointed again I had no theory of how the shortage occurred oc-curred I did not suspect the servant and made up the deficiency a |