The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-03-25
insurance Agent Held for
Passing Check Determines
to Start Life Anew After
Trial Here.
WIFE IN MICHIGAN
Husband Hopes to Keep Her
in Ignorance of Predica-
ment Until Court Settles
Case.

When this matter Is cleared up,
am going to live in Richmond and
show the people here what kind Of q
man l am"
This is what Claude e. Groves, In.
surance agent under arrest for pass
ing fraudulent check. declared as his
intention.
Mr.. Groves admitted he was at one
time pastor of the Congregational
church in Indianapolis. He denied
having been arrested on two charges
in Michigan and said his wife has not
deserted him.
Mrs. Groves was called to Mich
igan to the bedside of dying
brother" Mr.. Groves said. II am going
to try to keep her from finding out
about this trouble until 1t is over"
Retieent About 6oyhood.
The former pastor seemed reticent
about talking Of his boyhood plans of
entering the ministry. He said he
would never again go into the pulpit.
II do not like for people to find out
that have been in the pulpit" he
said. my mode Of life Is not what is
generally considered that Of pastor.
l do not like to speak sof things l
started and could not continue. / am
not an Incorporate man. I was not
intoxicated last Monday but that
charge was placed against me in order
to get me to the jail where this other
charge was served on me. have
been under the influence Of liquor
twice since l have been in Richmond.
more than year ago.
81 never had any domestic troubles.
l was married three years ago to
girl from my home in Michigan and
we have been happy. All my worry
has been over my business. l have
worked myself out trying to build up
business and to some extent ! have
succeeded. ..t.ES
Corrscts eiue's Report.
II want several Of the statements
made by John Blue. general agent for
the Massachusetts Bank and Insurance
company at South Bend, corrected. In
the first place, l was never pastor of
the College Avenue Baptist church in
Indianapolis. l never graduated from
Butler college. l was not selected by
the college president to invoke the
divine blessing on session OF legis-
lature / have not been drinking hard
and l did not have any intentions OF
going to Cincinnati to kill myself as
Blue said l had told my friends.
never said I was afraid to go to the
penitentiary.
Il am forty-four years old. / at
tended Butler college for three or four
years.. taking an elective course, ma
joring in psychology and sociology but
did not take theological course.
was licensed to preach and I occupied
the Congregational pulpit while was
in school. In 1897, the year Albert J.
Beveridge was elected as a senator,
nv name was chosen with the list of
many other Indianapolis pastors to
omen one of the sessions of legislature
with prayer.
while l was in school, I went to
Chicago and married Chicago girl.
Perhaps the statement that changed
my plans of becoming a minister be-
cause of remuneration from the pulpit
is too small, was right, but at any rate,
| left school and went to Empor1a,
Kansas, where l was employed by
large coal and lumber company. Later
they sent me to Webb City, Mo-, to
take charge of yard.
Doctor Advises Beer.
When went to Webb City weigh
ed 1876 pounds l soon dropped to 100
rounds. l was worried over the fact
and / consulted a physician. He told
me the water was SO strongly alkaline
that nobody could drink 1t entirely and
advised me to drink beer as a bev'
eridge. In this way I started what
little drinking have done in my life.
ut was in 1900 that left Indianap.
oils. After l had been in Kansas,
asked my wife to come to me. She
refused and wanted me to come east.
We were unable to agree and I felt
that I must stay with the work.
left the company in 1905 and went
back to my old home in Michigan.
Two years later, l had to meet my wife
about signing some papers on some
property we owned which required
both signatures. We discussed our
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