, 1921-11-01
STATEMENT OF
SAMUEL SHOVE
Vcontlnued Dom Pass "a

ranch / had been prevailed on by
Mr.. Gibhn so 1 signed n bunch OF
blank checks 70 that he could tako
care OF the bills as they were pre-
scented while I was out of town. /
did this In good faith but 1 must
s<y with well-founded misgiving in
the light OF subsequent developments.
"Iifind that Mr.. Giblln paid bills
which should never have been al
lowed. refused to pay other bills
which should have been paid and In
general handled the funds of the or
ganization IN n mapner that he
thought would DO OF most benefit to
himself.
while I was out at the ranch
Giblln came out there and told me
that we were in bad with the organ
ization on account of changing that
check. He as much as told me at
the time that he was giving me the
u TO beat st II I wanted TO evade
suit or prosecution.
II frankly told him That I had
nothing to Tear from prosecution:
ard that 7 had no intention Of run
ming away II any action was con-
templated. Then he went TO Mrs.
Shove n told her about II and In
timated that tho best thing was for
me to get away. We stood pat on
that but by this time Mrs. Shove
was pretty well worked up and ner-
vous SO then he sprang the deal
about me giving tho note and II 1
did he would protect me no matter
what attitude the camp took.
This appealed to Mrs. Shove and
! urged me 10 sign a note with
her. I also felt that IL h camp
felt that I owed them anything
that ] was willing to take the mo-
tioa pictures myself and pay them
the money.
80 In good faith we made a note
payable 10 Mr.. Giblin. He promised
to have 1t discounted and return
the money to the camp and return
the changed check to mo to close
UP the entire matter.
Then We went to the office to
close up the deal we gave the note
and Giblin said the check and other
records were at that time locked in
the desk belonging to DR.. +. S.
Lickey and that he did not have
access at that time.
"That is the last I heard Of the
deal until Giblin said that such
strong pressure had been brought
on him that he had to divulge the
information about the deal. 1 ask
ed him IL he had the note discount
ed and he admitted he hadn't. He
refused TO give me either the check
or the note, saying that the mat
49, 49,. - IL $3.50
MANY times since then he has re-
fused to let me see the financial
records. 1 don't know what has
been prostituted in my name. All
that I know is hat / am in jssl
an innocent man and that at lea
Giblin was a party to double cross
ing me and trying to get me TO in
criminate myself first by running
away and then later by prevailing
on my wife's fear and my WI Hoy
atty TO the organization to get us
to sign a note which he then turned
around and tried to use on me TO
protect himself.
Il charge that there are many ir-
Irregularities in the accounts of the
Spanish-American war veterans
now Many OF the pledge cards
which ] had numbered from l to
500 so that a complete record OF
the donations made tho organiza-
ton could be tabuiated are miss
Ing. and other things have been
called to my attention for which 1
am soon going to demand a full ac-
counting.
Mr.. Giblin I understand. has OF
ATE paid many bills to local BUSH
ness houses which he formerly re-
pudiatcd as chairman of the fl
nance committee. I charge that
every move he is making is guided |
by political expediency and the hope
that he will mako himself appear a
model and respected business man