The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat., 1917-04-06
|CURRYER BACK
IN DAVENPORT
! Defaultlna Manager Of the Purity
Oats Plant, Returned to the
City Of His Own
Free viii.
CANNOT REPAY MONEY
Man Who Took $4,000, States He
VIII be Unable to Reimburse
| Company Speculation 81
! Caused Shortage.
CANNOT REPAY MONEY

Davenport Democrat: j. H. Curry
er, former manager of the Purity
Oats company, who is charged with
being $45, 900 short in his accounts,
has returned to Davenport from De
catur. He was accompanied by his
brother, A. NJ. Curryer OF Des Mo1nes.
Together they registered at the Hotel
Davenport. ...... .-a.
81 have returned to Davenport OF
my own free will and without any
promises of any kind. I will do all
within my power to assist the com
pany in Strengthening out the en-
tanglement," said Mr.. Curryer to a
Democrat representative who called
ON him at the hotel. .--.
ITO what do you attribute your
present embarrassment MIR. curry
er was asked His response was
quick. absolutely. and entirely to
gambling on the board Of trade--a
very poor judgment in any man. ne
said.
Mr.. Curryer then explained how his
losses were small! at first and how
he kept getting deeper and deeper
into the hole in an effort to extricate
himself from the early losses.
Mr. Curryer is emphatic in his de-
NAL that he ever had any financial
difficulties with the Tri-City Litho-
graphing company, as has been re-
ported. Before his connection with
the Purity Oats company he was EN-
| ployed as foreman OF construction
work on the addition erected at the
plant. After its completion he was
asked by several of the directors to
identify himself with the company in
an executive capacity One or the
directors, it seems opposed him and
so he later withdrew. He then Went
| to St. Louis and organized label
company, with which he was con
nected at the time he accepted the
management of the Purity Oats com
pany. Mr.. Curryer Is printer py
! trade.
Mr.. Curryer and his brother met
President c. M. Rich and other Of
ficials of the Purity Oats company in
the offices of Lane & Waterman al
y o'clock Wednesday afternoon. A
lengthy conference was held during
which all Of the company's affairs
were gone over and the statements
of Mr. Curryer taken in shorthand.
Mr.. Curryer, in answer to the ques
tion Of the Democrat interviewer
said he did not know the exact
amount he1 was indebted to the com
pany. He further admitted he had
no assets with which to reimburse
them for their losses.
| After leaving Davenport Mr.. Cur
ryer went to Minneapolis. He was
there Wednesday and Thursday, Mar.
IA and Is. The following Friday and
Saturday he spent in Detroit where
he called on Mr.. Hinckley, general
mechanical engineer of the Chain ers
Motor company. The following Sun
day he was in Chicago and Monday
went to ST. Louis. On Tuesday,
March 81, he arrived in Decatur and
has been there until he boarded Il
train for Davenport.
The conference of Purity Oats com.
pany officials and attorneys with Mr..
Curryer was arranged so quietly that
it was with difficulty that the pres
ence of the former manager in the
city became known.
Joe r. Lane, senior member Of
Lane e Waterman, entered his Office
with one of the company officers
Charles Shuler, president of the Iowa
National bank, and c. A. Ficke came
in singly several minutes afterward
AT 2:1O o'clock Mr.. Curryer accom-
panied by his brother entered the
Lane building and taking the eleva tor
went directly to the second floor and
the office of the attorneys. They en-
tered the office leisurely, as if max
ing a casual business call.