Show fUN FuNDS S I TAKEN mR FOR CLAIM I I SPOKANE r Wash March 23 3 Hints AP ot of surreptitious withdrawals withdrawals with with- of funds from the tho tx- tx change N National bank ot of spokane for political nl s were e elaborated upon yesterday by 3 C. C is former trust r. r who was turning states state's evidence against E. E E. E Flood former Vice president In their trIal on charges of conspiracy con con- to embezzle harris testified that a staff of workers was wa paid advertising expenses ex- ex were settled and liquor was purchased to further the campaign of opposing a personal personal per per- enemy of Ed Flood At one time he asserted a bootlegger was paid 1170 for a load of booze tobe to I be in the campaign I Money loney for the expendItures lIar lIar- lIarI rs ra testified was ivas taken at Floods Flood's behest from funds of the trust do- do pat Under cross examination examination examina- examina tion Harris declared that memoranda memoranda memo memo- randa bt if the cah cach Items thus withdrawn with with- drawn h d disappeared from his dealt while he was In a hospital that there were tio no written r cords would Involve In- In Volvo volve Flood in the transaction was claimed as as favorable evidence by bythe bythe Insisted that the defense defense who has Harris Harris' direct testimony of Floods Flood's lon In the alleged r peculations cula- cula was Vas a fabrication n. |