Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-23
Evidence to Show That Cashier
Ware Did Not Benefit From
Looting of Seymour Bank
THIEVES IN BANK FOR YEARS
Problem Now is to Catch Those Guilty
of Making Tool of Cashier - Mrs.
Ware Threatens to Send Five 9th
ers to Prison if Her Husband is
Prosecuted.
Special to rimes-Rcpublican.

Des Moines. Aug. 23.-That there Is
| q colored gentleman among the COM
bustibles somewhere In the Seymour
bank failure is coming more and more
| to be the belief of bankers of Des
Moines and they are watching the de-
, velopments OF the case with great IN
! terest New facts are coming to light
! as to the character of Ware which
make the situation more interesting.
and the fact that Mrs. Ware has
| threatened to send five other men TO
the penitentiary II her husband Is con-
4 victed is still more of interest. IL mas
| been the expectation here among
bankers that there would be some kind
of a settlement. 1t is the claim that
usually those in hiding buy off the
man accused so that he shields them.
| They have been expecting that to hap
| pen in this CASE and are anxlous'y
| waiting the trial to see If 1t does nap
| pen. At any event the trial. whlch
will be held in October is likely TO un-
| cover some interesting circumstances
that may be used for Illustrations be-
fore the next legislature
1t Is understood in the first place
that 100000 has disappeared. In the
second place the people of Seymour are
| confident that Roy Ware did not spend
| the money. for they are sure that II
| he had spent 1t in any way there
would have been some visible evidence
| that the money was going thru his
lfngers. A man cannot spend $20o,0OO
| in town Of the size of Seymour with
| out some one knowing something about
| it, even il he spent it on the board
of trade In the third place Mrs.
| WARE has threatened to convict five
| other men and has sort of taken the
| thing out of the hands of her hus-
band.
/ Leroy Ware was a very studious
| boy as youth but was afflicted with
| spinal trouble. Senator Lewis was
attracted to him and put him in his
bank. BY close application and in-
dustry Ware rose one step at time
to the position Of cashier of the bank.
Seymour took a great pride in the boys
steady advancement His wife, who
i
a beautiful girl and held sway over
Seymour and Ware won her when he
won the position Of cashier On Sun
| days he passed the collection plate
| in the Presbyterian church and on
| week days was closely applied to the
| bank. The fact that Seymour people
are so very sure that Ware did not
get the money is the main point that
/ ;,,to ~, IT,,
ans, the aged president of the bank.
says that there have been thieves in
the bank for years and that the prob
lem now is to catch them.
| Charles Aldrich, curator at the bis
! torical building Is anxious to preserve
for history some of the important
events of the civil war now recorded
only in the memories of some of the
old soldiers. The old soldier is fast
dying off," said Mr.. Aldrich today, him
self a veteran of the war. IF the in
formation that many of them have is to
/ be preserved it must be preserved now.
You newspaper men will be doing the
i state a great service If you will look
| up all the old soldiers with experiences
and careers Of interest and print the
stories that they can tell. Mot a very
great per cent of them are able to tell
the story in an interesting manner but
a newspaper man could put 1t in read
able shape and 1t would then be pre-
served"
Mr.. Aldrich mentioned a numbe9 Of
men who have related stories of their
experience in the war that is of inter
| ct l. 1s,,1 ~
| from long training to the historical
value in everything Mr.. Aldr,ich is
anxious that some of this material
that has not already been preserved
should be gathered up before the last
old soldier has gone to his reward.
Much Of it is already preserved but
much more remains to be recorded.
The state board of control has just
contracted for years supply of fou.
| for the state institutions. 1t takes
about sack of flour year for each
person, the purchase being 1875 sacks
| for a population at the state instltu-
tions of something over 10000.
In response to protest against in
l IAOeoS III VI Cdl1l olpu leulSS ~ OAiidi
gated by the railroads to take effect
September 1, the state railroad commits
sion yesterday sent out IAN order to the
railroads to suspend the rate pending
hearing before the board of commits
sioners.
The protest was signed and filed by 4
score of the representative shippers Of
the state. They held a conference in
Des Moines yesterday, and after care
full discussion of the situation decided
to enter a protest against the proposed
action of the railroads who are pro-
ceeding without the sanction of the
/ commission.
Their protest, filed yesterday with
the board follows:
Whereas The various railroads and
express companies doing business with
in the state of Iowa and carrying cream
as express and baggage within the
Estate have given notice of raise in
the rates charged and to be collected
for carrying cream as aforesaid as bag
gage and express. Said raise in cream
rates to be effective on or about Sep
TENDER l 10 September IA, 1907.
Whereas. Said increase in cream
rates avera ges about thirty per cent.
Whereas, This increase in rates if
allowed 10 go into effect will have to be
borne by the producers of cream.