Last week ruddy-faced, lantern-jawed Captain Ralph E. Fleischer, onetime head of the U. S. Army School for Bakers & Cooks at Fort Slocum, N. Y., marched stiffly into the Y. M. C. A. building at Fort Jay on Governors Island, N. Y. There a court-martial of one Brigadier General, six Colonels, one Lieutenant Colonel and one Major formally charged Captain Fleischer with violating the 93rd, 95th and 96th Articles of War.*
On Thanksgiving Day, 1934, the prosecution asserted, Captain Fleischer "did feloniously embezzle by fraudulently converting to his own use two bottles...
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