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SEYMOUR BANKER DEFENDS HUSBAN Mrs. Leroy Ware Threatens to Send Pro inent Wayne County Men to Penite tiary if Spouse is Convicted Jamison, who hated leaving his Seymour, Iowa, Aug. 17.-Mrs. Le fortable bed for a midnight ride o Roy Ware, wife of the cashier of the teen miles in a raw March Farmers' and Drovers' State bank of "Business connected with my i Seymour, la. has thrown down the ance," was the answer, and then auntlet to her husband's accusers in chocking whisper "The bank." he statement that she will send five go with you Roy," said Jamison other men to the penitentiary if her as they passed through the stree usband is convicted of the crime for the Ceeping town Ware said to which he is now under five indictnents. companion, 'Seymour will awake new conditions in the morning.' Who the five men are and the exact The two men drove to the hon in which they are implicated Lewis Miles and the three sat Mrs. Ware refuses to divulge, but in dawn talking it over. Exactly interview she has given out the passed between Miles and Ware tatement and says she will stand by hever been known. But at dayl Aaron Evans, the president of Mrs. Ware's devotion to her husbank, and Dr. Cover, one of the o and is a remarkable example of a tors were sent for. The old pres love. When the news of the of the bank upon his arrival at N failure became knewn, her office asked immediately to talk nother, Mrs. Bullard, went to the his cashier. Ware was in a state aughter's home and entreated her to mental collapse which was painf eave her husband and return to her see, but Mr. Evans greeted him of her girlhood. The unusual nothing had happened. "Let's ta nstance of a woman choosing be all over," he counseled kindly, ween her mother and her husband see what can be done." afforded. Mrs. Ware told her I'll never live to bear this disgr nother that she would obey the Biblisaid the desparing man; "I'll kill injunction to forsake all and cling self." Cover who had been his her husband, and that she would friend and family physician for : listen to such advice. cade, said "No. Roy, if you are 8 Town Divided. to talk like that we will lock you And then he talked to him of his Roy Ware and his affairs divided to his family, and all that, and \ town as cleanly into two factions handed him a 38-caliber revolver a steel wedge splits pine. his hip pocket, saying, "You are I Seymour has always regarded Roy Cover; I'll take my medicine li Vare as something particularly her man." and of her own making. When The trip was made back to Sey was first accused of appropriating and Ware placed under guard in bank's money to his own use the own home. He was then suff stood aghast. There were a from the effects of a fall received many people who would not be runaway accident and was und it, and they do not believe it physicians care for several weeks in spite of the fact that there are lowing. Ten of the leading despos indictments against the man, any and stockholders in the bank si of which might mean a term in his bond. Then the grand jury prison. and two indictments were retu The history of the bank's failure is Several of the men on the bon long story. It is fraught with many came angered because Ware did the elements of a stern tragedy. make a clean breast of everythin here are a number of people in fore the grand jury and dema Wayne county to whom it spells utter their release. At the July sessio nancial ruin, and yet some of these the grand jury three more indictn Roy Ware's staunch friends towere returned. Ware went hom There is a reason for all this, his wife in a panic. His despair reason not far to seek. These peoed her to say something theu V believe that Roy Ware was only a she had been longing to say for instrument in the hands of other time. She faced his enemies with assertion. "They are making a sc Aged President. goat of Roy, and if he sees the 1 Aaron Evans, the aged president of of state's prison I'll see that he he bank said the other day: "Ther some others with him." The cat been a thief in the bank for many out of the bag at last and the p The problem is to find the of Seymour were treated to a S and his accomplices." tion of many startling disclos Even those who believe Roy Ware They are still waiting apprehens are repeating this question over Never Used a Dollar. over, "What did he do with the Roy Ware said the 200,000?" It was town pride that he day that he never used a dollar o not smoke, drink, swear or gamble bank's money. He admits that he Sunday he passed the plate in the fied the bank's records but say resbyterian church and on week days did not make the first false entry worked in the bank. There is Ware sat in the little parlor o one way they say, for him to father's home in Seymour when spent the money, and that is made this statemnt. His own hor vhispered softly under the breath. leased to Mr. Frye of Corydon, Bucket shops. But that is a story was appointed receiver of the which might involve others and no As he talked, Ware held a copy o accusations are being made. Saturday Evening Post in his Roy Ware was a poor boy. He was He had just finished reading a sto only poor, but he was afflicted the Post "The Respectability S by Will Payne. with a spinal disease, which dwarfed physical growth. Up until the The story has to do with a ime he was sixteen he went to school failure and the punishment mete studied hard. He was determined to a bank teller in order to satisf his affliction should not altolaw. The story interested Ware bank teller had to go to state's p tether hamper him in the fight for When he was fourteen Senator for a year because he had overewis who about that time founded fied a check with the free and full sent of the bank's officers. But Farmers' and Drovers' bank, took law was appeased with out enta harge of the boy as his own special rotege. Senator Lewis was only a any hardship upon the officers. "I did wrong," said Ware, closin oung man himself, but he thought he nervous hands to keep them good material there which might the world some good. The senator while he talked. "The trouble ed nine years ago. Some of the conducted a little print shop and who knew about it at that time put Ware there that he might earn dead and some of them are out o few odd dollars and still keep up his tudies. After Ware was sixteen he bank. Some others are still in bank. With me it was a case of taken into the bank as a clerk. loyal to my employers. I was we Then he rose steadily. Every day the people gained new confidence in him. admit it. But I want to say that will be something more definite 1 The bank was solid beyond a doubt they could trust Roy Ware. When from me when the proper time con was twenty-three he was made A Peculiar Position. cashier. One of the other clerks in The officers and directors of bank. Jim Phillips had a pretty Farmers' and Drovers' bank have young sister-in-law. Daisy Bullard lordbeen placed in a peculiar and hum it over the town boys like any ing position. They are standin queen. But nothing succeeds like sucgether to a man against the whi and Ware won her for his wife. ed comments of Roy Ware's fri They were married the same year he The situation has resolved itself reached the goal of the cashier's cage. one which will eventually make this time Jim Phillips was assistant ter enemies of men who have ashier. Senator Lewis had sold out lifelong friends. One thing is no interests and moved away. Ware nied by either faction. This is the practical head of the bank. the conduct of the bank's affairs honesty went unquestioned, just a monumental piece of careless the faith in one's mother. and neglect which is unprecedent An Unbroken Calm, banking annals. The life of the town flowed for ten As late as last week Receiver ears in the unbroken calm. Business unearthed unopened mail which prosperous, the corn crop never tained good checks. Several hur failed and the people rested secure in dollars have been added to the b belief that the bank was as firm assets in this way. solid masonry. Where the money went no one The discovery to the contrary came say But the way in which the distinet ords were juggled is now know
