The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-11-17
NEWS BY SPECIALS.

Special 10 tho. Herald.

Special 10 tho lerad
Fonr DA4f, November 1.-THE taking
Of the testimony in the Flipper trial was re-
sumod this nbrning. General NJ. Il. Small,
chief commipsary of the department, tos-
titled no Knew Flipper had not received or
recCptcd for any subsistence funds for
July. He had not received any invoices
of funds or any statement OF funds
fro1 July to July %, inclusive.
He Ibid receive a statement of funds August
s Kr July 80, which was offered in evidence,
reporting SO, 79l y in transit. AS the money
LAD not arrived he telegraphed clipper
August for his own information, but re.
ceiyed no answer. He telegraphed Colonel
SKATER August 10 to investigate and re.
ceiyed, September s, $1,000 with printed
note, or weekly statement, in checks.
He teleGraphed clipper May 2 not
to send funds during May, owing
to his absence. The records of the
during portion of May, all of June and
three weeks of July. He had no recol-
lection of calling for missing statements
until August .. The records of the Office
show that none were received. He had re-
ceived all the funds purporting to belong to
the last fiscal year charged TO Flipper as
reported by his successor.
missary department. testified: No funds or
weekly statements were received during
General SmallS absence.
Colonel John Withers, cashier at San
Antonio, testified: clipper had an official
account as quartermaster, but it had been
closed subsequent to August 10. lie had
4 personal account OF Si4.
\, Adjourned.
'FoRT DAVIS, November 12.-Lieutenant
II. Mithelm, adjutant Of the first infantry.
was called By the government i'll the Flip
per trial, who testified: II know clipper;
saw Colonel Shaftor counting commissary
funds with Flipper July ID; Colonel
Skater called attention to fourteen hun
Gred and forty dollars and forty
three cents check as very large check for
an officer. Flipper said, "Yes, | have
lot OF small checks which could not be aud
tied, and did not wish to send them to
the chief commissary, so sent to the San
drew personal check against them, iden
titled this particular check: saw Shafter
and Flipper in Skaters office, August 10th,
conversing relative to the dispatch from the
chief commissary stating that the July
statement received showed large amount
of funds in transit not received;
Flipper said he. had put a
on the 9th of July and was anxious to
forward them; that he wrote a letter and
transmitted the receipts and invoices and
deposited them all in the postoflice in
sealed envelope late at night; he did
this work at his quarters and kept
no copy; as commissary officer he
was locked up; the Endorsed checks to
the chief commissary, if not received
were lost iii the mail; Flipper was ordered
to turn over the funds to Edmunds the
same evening, August IL, as his successor;
he did not go to the office before meeting
Edmunds in his quarters; on August -
Flipper was notified by Shatter that his
quarters were to be searched and that
Wilhelmn and Edmunds were to do
it they would apologize if doing an injus-
tice. Wilhelm and Emunds accompanied
Flipper to his quarters and thoroughly
searched the same; Flipper said he had no
objection to the same being made; they found
q number Of statements for May and July;
a statement for August 9th was found in
his trunk among his clothing, afterwards
claimed by the servant; Flipper's and his
servants clothing were promiscuously
mixed in the wardrobe, also, toilet articles;
they found number of Of
fetal papers scattered around the
room in such an unsatisfactory condi-
ton that Flipper was put under arrest and
taken to the guard house; they took posses
sion of all the valuables, and found a per-
sonal check for commissions on Flipper's
person and note written by Flipper to the
chief commissary, which was found
to be untrue when the checks
were obtained; the San Antonio
bank had not been notified of the receipt of
the same; the checks found on the servant
girl were given to Wilhelm for safe keep
ing, and afterwards given to Edmonds as
commissary except the fourteen handrcd
and forty dollar check Edmunds transmit
ted to the chief commissory.
Adjourned.