The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-09-18
l.. A. CULVER SURE.
The Wreclxer of The PeO-
ple's Bank is Brought
Back to Logan.
Failing TO Give Bond in the Sum Of
$1O,O00.0O He is Landed in Jail
TO Await His Trial.

l.. A. Culver was once happy and
respected citizen of Logan. He
was II banker of high repute and q
citizen with name untarnished
His bank was one of the business
houses Of Logan of which we were
proud. His beautiful home on Glen
View Heights, was land mark
which it was pleasure for oul
people to point out to visiting
friends asthe handsome residence
of our rich banker l.. A. Culver
Such confidence had our people in
him as fellow townsman, born
and raised here of honorable par.
entage and pioneer stock, that for
these many years even after their
earnings were lost at his hand
there has been those that have
fought for his honor. III June 1S92
without warning, the people of this
community were shocked TO learn
VI tue tOplS D DuIh SlOoiIlB IVA
doors. Few ofits creditors thought
for moment, that other than a
run on the bank had caused tenn.
porary suspension. Many had such
confidence in this man Of their
youth, that they turned bank books,
certificates and all over to him
telling him to pay when he could
get things in shape. They had
thought Of him as rich man, that
there might be a shorti depression
in accessible cash, but that he was
worth the confidence ofany amount
in his hands; but as years passed,
and receiver revealed nothing in
the safe and books 9 one, and with
them had escaped their good friend,
L. A. Culver, the rich banker, their
confidence was turned into curses,
and forthwith proceedings were
entered into that caused u grand
jury 10 find an indictment against
Mr.. Culver for embezzlement in
the sum of $4,000. This was more
than two years ago, and detective
agencies have worked on the case
ever since, to the ultimate result
at hand, that of the once banker
and respected townsman, now the
felon languishing in the county
jail in the town of his birth, in the
town of his fortune, in the town of
his ruinatiOn.
On Monday afternoon last very
unusual move seemed to capture
the bulky eXistance Of our chief of
Police, +. p. Armstrong. He was
seen to be hustling among some Of
the old Peoples Bank Creditors
and to be looking intently for
Sheriff Ryan. Upon inquiry we
learned that he had received a
telegram from the Chief of Police
at Terre Haute, Ind, that they
were the happy possessors of the
much wanted l.. a. Culver, the eX-
banker Of our city. Sheriff Ryan
sent Marshall Armstrong at once
to Terre Haute proposing to follow
with requistion papers, but such
was unnecessary as Mr.. Culver
signified his willingness TO accom-.
pany the Marshall with out papers,
and on Wednesday morning, amid
the rush of the curious and the
wronged, there was ushered into
our court room the much sought
ex.banker and except for Il few
years of care upon his life, and the
removing of his beard, the banker
was himselfin appearance. Judge
Johnston presided on the bench |
and fixed the bond Of the fugitive
ut $4,000 which was earnestly con.
tested by the Culver council but to |
no avail. Vernon Culver, brother |
of the indicted banker, sought all
day for friends who might come to
his brothers relief and save him
from the ignominy Of IA home in the
county Jail. The Sheriff was rea~
sonable and allowed HIM TO remain |
in the court room, or work on
friends that were brought him
about the court house under the |
sheriffS eyes, but when evening
arrived the awful stroke came for
want of bond, and the sheriff es.
cOrted his prisoner to the tQmbs,
an exempliication of the old adage,
"the law is no respecter of per-
sons"
Hundreds of happy homes in
this county were made desolate by
the failure Of the Peoples Bank,
and many hard'earnihgsw were lost /
and thousands Of tears from broken
hearts have, been wrung, because
of one mans either dishonesty,
which remains for the court to de-
eide, or his misfortune, in this
county, IN the souls from whence
these tears or curses have come
there remains at this time very
little sympathy for the entombed
suspect that languishes with Sheriff
Ryan, but perhaps those that have
been befriended ut the hands Of
Lawrence A. Culver and never
wronged, have much sympathy for
him; we are neither and therefore l.
have nosympathy or condemnation
TO offer, except sympathy for those
of his family who have young
friends here, and condemnation for