The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-22
IOWA SENSATION
!. Man Wears steel Corset
nd WouIe Have Died Soon It
He Was Kept ia the e.
Madison Prison.


aling Of habeus corpus proceedings
n Keokuk for his release from Sheriff
batin, is likely to prove big sensa-
ion before the matter is all over. II
ware loses his suit here next week
nd is taken back to Wayne county, In
eresting developments may come UP;
Or 1t is said that he was cats paw
& the ban. failure and cot entirely
responsible eor all the trouble
The following fror The Des Moines
Capital will be OF interest:
Tie parole CT Leroy Ware, former
cashier for the defunct Farmers and
Droyers bank at Seymour, who was
sent up for Ave years for alleged IT.
Eegularities of over $4,000. has
brought to the surface startling EVIL
ience which YVES taken by the state
board Of parole in its investigation of
he case,
Ware was paroled after serving just
thirteen months, because the state
board Of parole believed that the evf-
Hence indicated him to be the scape
goat for the others connected with
The bank, so Secretary B. w. Garrett
Declared today.
Ware was liberated Saturday and
started soliciting insurance for a
named Billiard at Fort Madison.
vas re-arrested yesterday on an
charge of fraudulent banking,
at Corydon.
An Iowa Sensation.
Ware case has been an Iowa
tion. No bank In years has failed
IN amount so large as that at
our, the Iowa records show. Then
the Indictment Of Ware and his
' pfacsats ol the bank
ppear to have figured in the case.
bwn by the evidence before the
board Of parole, are: President
Llewellyn, Vice President j. @.
ps and Director Aaron Evans.
violence upon which the board of
p based its action largely was
ashed by Former Senator L. w.
Wis, now of Seattle; w. C. Sanger,
newspaper man !. w. Wagner and
Asorney Livingstone of Corydon.
County Attorney Criticized.
There werc seven reasons why the
board OF parole found that Ware
should be paroled One OF these re.
ates to County Attorney Carter who
prosecuted the case. The evidence
Showed before the board Of parole,
tsat Carter Is a partner Of w. H. Ted.
fdd, who was attorney for the de
Eunct bank. which appears to have
1sen back OF prosecution al the
young cashier. The evidence show.
edN that Carter refused to permit
we grand jury to- take any evidence
watch tended to show that any other
tnan War; was implicated in the short
ages.
another reasonfor the granting Of
'ne rarole was that the claim was
made to the board that the false en-.
lrles in the bank books were made by
ware with the knowledge and consent
oltne bank officials In fact e., wit
ness for Ware testified that the first
raise entry was made at the suggest
ION OF one in authority who used this
nFst compliance as a club over the
Young cashier's head.
Other Reasons for parole.
The o. reasons, summarized, are
as follows.
That Ware had never profited Z
single cent by the $4,000 shortage
laat he was not extravagant. that his
VIE was notsextravagant and that he
was not a sport. IN any sense.
That the allure Of the bank wa.
largely due to poor loans made in thu
lace Of protests sby Ware, SO the eyi
dence showed. Us ssss
mat Ware was forced to go to trial
Waen his attorney. w. L. Read, was il
IN Des Moines.
mat Ware has tuberculosis OF thu
splne and that penitentiary life woult
MI him. He wears steel corse
constantly to keep himself together.
mat he has served ample time t
explate his wrongdoing under the cir
cumstances.
Lewis Testifies for Ware.
Ex-senator Lewis testified that h,
p'cxed Ware rn when the latter qui
scnool because the pupils LAUGHED a
nim on account Of his deform.t7. IL,
made him "dcvil' in his printing office