Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-21
WEAvES STRONG CHAIN OF CIR.
cuMsrANcEs AROUND De.
PENDANT AT Usage.
CLOSES DIRECT EVIDENCE
AND DEFENSE is HEARD
State Traces CULVER Minutely on Day
Of Attempted Bank Robbery-Gulli.
yer Sets Out to Establish Abb and
Makes Headway-Other News Of tho
State.

Usage, March 21.-The state closed
IS case against Glenn CULVER last
night and did not use many witnesses
called at the preliminary hearing and
before the grand jury.
Witness Colby for the defense sta ted
that a man resembling CULVER had
been in Orchard for four days previous
20 the DAY OF the assault. but was posi-
tive il was not Gulliver and that the
man running away from the bank on
that evening was the same man. Colby
had known CULVER intimately for
twelve years and frequently had seen
him in Orchard last summer. The
states witnesses never had seen him
there previous TO the Thursday and
Friday of the assault
States Strong Case,
Did Glenn CULVER assault Cashier
z. Q. C!appeE Of the Orchard bank with
intent TO rob the bank of its wealth .
Could there have been any plot into
which he could have entered whereby
an attempt was made to rob the bank?
These questions and q dozen Of others
have gone thru the minds CT the people
who have inrently listened To the evil
dence the state has offered The days
and the hours and even the minutes
have been SO definitely fixed, undis-
turbeG BY the rigid cross examinations
il would look as if conviction would
be certain.
This is about the way The state
has been able 10 make out its story:
It has introduced witness after wit
ness who's tated that CULVER was in
Orchard on Thursday, and this in view
Of the fact that the defense rests large
" its case on an effort 10 establish
that he was not there but instead was
in Charles City at the times alleged
10 have been seen in Orchard All of
these witnesses saw him either in or
around the bank. From the evidence
ne walked from Usage 10 Orchard OF
the afternoon of Friday, Dec. IS. He
was seen By several witnesses who saw
him going. He was seen after arriv-
ing in Orchard by those who identify
him. He was seen going 10 the bank.
After the assault ne was seen going
in the direction Of the railroad track.
He was seen running north. Mr.. Vim
ing. who lives one and one-fourth miles
was made to rob the bank and that the
supposed robber was going north on
the track and for him to keep a look
out. About Sis he saw man running
north on the track described as Glenn
CULVER. About O'clock people who
had known CULVER for wears saw him
come into Usage. pass up thru an alley
in the direction of his home. The next
no i
Orchard TO Usage. In Orchard as soon
as the crime was committed CULVER
was suspicioned, even tho his charac-
ter seemed above reproach.
With all this evidence pointing so d.
rectly toward him as the guilty party
his friends are hoping ne may be able
to clear himself.
Many Witnesses For Defense.
Twelve witnesses for the defendant
give evidence today. all 70 show that
there were strangers in Orchard the
week previous to the assault Of Cashier
Clapper and the attempted robbery of
the bank. Mrs. Miller. an actress from
Chicago. testified that CULVER left
there az o:3o THURSDAY morning pre-
ceGing the Friday evenings robbery.
Twenty more witnesses are 10 testify
for the defendant and they will try TO
establish the fact that CULVER was in
Charles City THURSDAY afternoon, and
either took the Clipper going north at
O'Clock or the freight Immediately
following.
The state is prepared to use at least
twenty witnesses in rebuttal if this
line Of defense is attempted. The court
house is crowded. 1t is by far the most
se,lsa tional case ever heard in the
here