Farmers & Drovers Bank (Seymour, IA)

Episode Information

Episode UID
6481751491288
Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
trust
Bank ID
648175149 hash
Start Date
April 19, 1907
Location
Seymour, Iowa (40.683, -93.121)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest
702cd3f479828008

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None

Description

Closure followed large cashier embezzlement; receiver appointed and bank remained defunct.

Events (2)
1. April 19, 1907 Suspension
Cause
Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details
Cashier LeRoy (Leroy) Ware confessed to long‑running embezzlement creating a massive shortage making resumption impossible.
Newspaper Excerpt
ANOTHER BANK FAILURE Farmers & Drovers Bank of Seymour Closes Doors after Cashier Gets Away With Thousands.
Source
newspapers
2. April 30, 1907 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
Receiver is Named. Bank Examiner Leland Windsor... B. F. Fry... was today appointed receiver by Judge Towner.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (19)
1. April 25, 1907 The Leon Reporter Leon, IA
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ANOTHER BANK FAILURE Farmers & Drovers Bank of Seymour Closes Doors after Cashier Gets Away With Thousands. There is considerable excitement in Wane county over the failure of the Farmers & Drovers Bank, at Seymour, last Friday, after the cashier, Leroy Ware, confessed that he had been looting the bank for the past eight years and his shortage would run anywhere from $50,000 to $100,000. The bank was considered one of the strongest financial institutions in southern Iowa, having a capital of $80,000, and deposits of over $200,000. The stockholders are among the wealthy citizens of Wayne county and it is reported that the loss will not fall upon the depositors but will have to be borne by the stockholders, as they are liable for double the amount of the stock they own, which would make them liable for $160,000, which will cover the shortage of cashier Ware. The state bank examiner was at Seymour on Thursday and when he checked up the bank the cashier reported large sums on deposit with banks at Ottumwa and other places, but an investigation showed that they had no money there. The defaulting cashier is a young man of 35 years of age, who has been connected with the bank for sixteen years. What has become of the money is not known although it is reported that Ware and several other Seymour parties have been speculating on the board of trade and dropped considerable money. Ware's system was to receive time deposits and issue certificates but make no entry on the bank's books, pocketing the money. This has been going on for eight years, as he had the full confidence of the stockholders who supposed everything was all right. Among the stockholders is Judge H. K. Evans and several of his relatives who will suffer a big financial loss. The bank was beseiged by depositors who demanded their money, but none are being paid, as it cannot yet be told just how big the shortage is until all parties holding certificates of deposit report to the bank. Ware has not been placed under arrest, but is being watched carefully as it is feared he may commit suicide.

2. April 25, 1907 The Bon Homme County Independent Tabor, SD
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CONFESSION BASIS OF BIG BANK SCANDAL Seymour, Ia., April 24.-Cashier LeRoy Ware, of the Farmers and Drovers bank. made a complete confession of his operations in the bank this morning to the state auditor and several directors. He said that the shortage would be nearer $75,000 than any other sum he could name. He feared it might run to $100,000. Ware said: "As God is my judge I have not profited by this shortage by a single cent. I was the dupe of several men who found out that I had manipulated the books by false entries and used that information to hold me up for money." "The system of robbing the bank was to issue certificates of deposit to men who did not give the bank any money. These men speculated in grain with the certificates of deposits. So long as they had money, well and good, and the certificates were redeemed." Will Prosecute. Auditor Carroll will not permit the bank to open until experts have gone over the books to get evidence for criminal prosecutions. Ware is generally believed to have been duped. He was not a high liver. R. S. Davidson, a depositor had $9,000 in the bank for which there is not a record. Twenty-five angry Italian coal miners are in Seymour clamoring for their money and threatening trouble. Extra police have been ordered to keep them away from the bank. Cashier Ware after opening the safe and making his confession collapsed and he is at his home behind locked doors. His wife is standing by him nobly and insists that men higher up in the town, though not officers of the bank, are the real culprits.

3. April 26, 1907 Iowa State Bystander Des Moines, IA
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WARE'S MIND wrecked. Cashier of Defunct Seymour Bank in Pitiable Condition. Centerville.-Leroy Ware, cashier of the defunct Seymour Farmers and Drovers' tank, is a raving maniac and it is feared will commit suicide. He is watched hourly by physicians and nurses. A trained nurse has been called from the Centerville hospital to take charge of him and remain with him constantly. The victim of friends who imposed upon his indulgence is now paying the debt of his false and illegal acts as cashier of one of the best banks in southern Iowa. Those closest to him have grave tears that before the matter is finally settled up Roy Ware will be either in his grave or the madhouse. Bank Examiner Windsor has made a significant comment as he has been askej the condition of the Institution while his examination has progressed: "Worse and more of it." The estimate of a shortage of $200.000 made yesterday is regarded as reasonably conservative. Yet the 3eposits amount to but $160,000 on the books. It is one of the marvelous cases. Some of the liabilities not represented by paper in the bank have been secured since the examiner began his work. Directors of the institution have decided. definitely, to ask the court at Corydon to appoint a receiver for the institution. The enormous shortage makes reorganization and resumption of business impossible.

4. May 1, 1907 Bisbee Daily Review Bisbee, AZ
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DEFAULTER NOW INMATE OF ASYLUM lowa Bank Cashier Is a Maniac and May Never Recover His Reason-Receiver To Be Appointed. OTTUMWA, Iowa, April 30.-Leroy Ware, the defaulting cashier of the Farmers and Drovers' bank of Seymour, which recently went into the hands of State Bank Examiner Leland Windsor, is a maniac, and, in the opinion of his physician, may never recover his reason. It is the general belief that if Ware survives the delirium into which he was plunged when his shortage was discovered he will end* his days in an asylum. The latest development in the case, asfde from the condition of Ware, is the fact that a receiver will be appointed for the institution and its affairs wound up. Attachment suits were begun against Harlan Marsh and two others, who are believed to have secured the loans that accounted for Ware's shortage. These men, according to a statement made by Windsor, who discovered the shortage, are believed to have secured large loans for speculative purposes from Ware, and all records of the deals were kept off the books. Ware, when he confessed his shortage, asserted that he did not benefit from his transactions in receiving deposits without making them a matter of record on the bank's books. He claimed that pressure had been brought to bear upon him to lend this money to wealthy men in the community, but he refused to make public the names of the men he claimed profited by his dishonesty. Marsh was believed to be one, however, and two others were suspected as having a part. In the proceeding and attachment suits begun against the trio, tying up their property until the matter can be brought into the courts. Marsh executed a deed to valuable Appanoose county land to secure the bank. "The shortage will be much more than $100,000, and will doubtless reach close to $200,000," said Examiner Windsor this afternoon. "How much more it will be I can not say at this time, but it is sure to reach that figure." The Farmers and Drovers' Bank is the direct descendant of the oldest bank in Seymour. There was first a private bank, then a small savings bank and twelve years ago the institution became a state bank under much the same management as that which controlled it at the time ExamIner Windsor took charge of its atfairs. Ware entered the employ of the bank fourteen years ago and gained the confidence of the officials. Mrs. Ware, the youthful wife of the defaulter, says her husband was forced into what he did. Further than that she refused to discuss the case. Mrs. Ware, mother of Ware, says her son will be vindicated, but predicts that he will not live to see it.

5. May 2, 1907 Missouri Valley Times Missouri Valley, IA
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$400,000 CONE IN BANK CRASH Cashier Ware's Vest Pocket Record Missing--Receiver Is Appointed. Des Moines, la., April 30.-State bank authorities are today ransacking Cashier Ware's possessions in the hope of finding the missing privato accounts book in which Ware is alleged to have kept a record of his speculations. It is now believed that this vest pocket record is all that is saved to, show the big deposits in the bank for which no credit was given on the books. President Evans, of the Farmers and Drovers' bank. of Seymour, today said that $250,000 will not cover the bank's shortage. It may run up to $400,000. Receiver is Named. Bank Examiner Leland Windsor, on Monday will turn over the effect of the wrecked concern to B. F. Fry, or Corydon, who was today appointed receiver by Judge Towner. It is believed that the bank will not pay out over 40 cents on the dollar to those who are shown by the books to be regular depositors. Whether the men whose deposits were never entered on the books will ever get back any of the money entrusted to them is 11 problem. Dr. Maxwell today said in his judgment Cashier Ware is not insane. He says the man is suffering from mental anguish and his condition is slightly affected by a runaway accident two weeks ago, but he thinks Ware could make :1 rational statement of his troubles at the bank.

6. May 9, 1907 Audubon County Journal Exira, IA
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WARE'S MIND WRECKED. Chier of Defunct Seymour Bank in Pitiable Condition. Centerville.-Leroy Ware, cashier of the defunct Seymour Farmers and Drovers' bank, is a raving maniac and it is feared will commit suicide. He is watched hourly by physicians and nurses. A trained nurse has been called from the Centerville hospital to take charge of him and remain with him constantly. The victim of friends who imposed upon his indulgence is now paying the debt of his false and illegal acts as cashier of one of the best banks in southern Iowa. Those closest to him have grave fears that before the matter is finally settled up Roy Ware will be either in his grave or the mailbouse. Bank Examiner Windsor has made a significant comment as he has been asked the condition of the institution while his examination has progressed: "Worse and more of it." The estimate of a shortage of $200,000 made yesterday is regarded as reasonably conservative. Yet the deposits amount to but $160,000 on the books. It is one of the marvelous cases. Some of the liabilities not represented by paper in the bank have been secured since the examiner bcgan his work. Directors of the institution have de. cided. definitely, to ask the court at Corydon to appoint a receiver for the institution. The enormous shortage makes reorganization and resumption of business impossible.

7. May 16, 1907 Pierre Weekly Free Press Pierre, SD
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Domestic. The Missouri house passed the senate bill prohibiting pool selling by telephoning bets into another state. The Susan B. Anthony memorial fund of $60,000 to promote the cause of equal suffrage has been completed. A reunion of descendants of the signers of the Declaration of Independence will be held at the Jamestown exposition on July 4. Henry R. H. E. McIver, a soldier of fortune, whose exploits have been carried on in many lands, was found dead in bed in his home in New York. Receiver Fry of the failed Farmers and Drovers' Bank of Seymour, Iowa, announces that depositors will realize about 70 per cent on their claims. The Illinois senate has passed a 2-cent fare law. The bill provides that 3 cents a mile shall be charged when passengers fail to buy tickets before boarding a train. Dr. John Watson (Ian McLaren) died at Mount Pleasant, Iowa. The cause was blood poisoning, resulting from tonsilitis. He was taken ill at Mount Pleasant. April 25. As a tribute to a workman who has been in their employ for nearly forty years, the plant of the Willard Sons & Bell Boiler company of Chicago was closed down for five hours. President Roosevelt was elected an honorary vice president of the American Seamen's Friend Society of New York. President Roosevelt, it was said, made his first public speech when a young man in the society's room. Tony Burns of Los Angeles defeated "Philadelphia Jack" O'Brien before the Pacific Athletic club at Los Angeles after twelve rounds of fighting that was for the most part a foot race. O'Brien running away from Burns from the first round to the finish. John Armstrong, the negro hanged it Columbus, Tex., April 19, for wife murder, revived after being placed in the coffin. It is declared that Armstrong is now living and that friends and relatives are keeping the matter guiet, fearing the state will again step in.

8. May 16, 1907 The Miller Press Miller, SD
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FINDS OLD CHECKS. Receiver of Defunct Bank Discovers Old Letters. Seymour, Iowa, May 14. - Letters containing money, checks and drafts, which have lain unopened for years in drawers and pigeonholes. have been discovered by Receiver Fry, in charge of the defunct Farmers and Drovers' bank. Some of them date back as far as six years, and the checks contained in them are too old for collection. Others were signed by persons who have since died or gone out of business.

9. May 16, 1907 Ottumwa Tri-Weekly Courier Ottumwa, IA
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# O'NEIL VS. ADAMS. Centerville Man Wants $5,000 From Seymour Editor-Marshal Gaddis is Also Sued. Seymour. Dave O'Neil of Centerville has brought suit for $5,000 against J. J. Adams, editor of the Seymour Leader, for damages sustained from an article published in his paper on February 14. O'Neil has also sued the marshal, Theo Gaddis, for a like sum for arresting and jailing him on a charge of drunkenness. Gaddis and Adams have retained Miles and Steele as their attorneys in the case. John Hoschar returned Monday from Alamagardo, New Mexico, to attend to some business matters here. The proposition to erect and improve the West School building, voted on Monday, carried by a majority of ninety votes. The same proposition was voted on in March and lost by one vote. The regular meeting of the Home and Foreign Missionary societies of the Presbyterian church met with Mrs. James Strome Tuesday afternoon. Howard Clark of Des Moines was a Seymour visitor Monday. The depositors of the Farmers and Drovers' bank, met Friday night and appointed a committee to employ an attorney to look after their interests in the defunct bank. The three boys from the Seymour high school, Edgar Dyball, Alex Richardson and Kenneth Johnson, who took part in the southeastern Iowa scholastic meet at Fairfield last Friday, took second place, coming home Friday morning with five medals, four gold and one bronze. Dyball won first in the 100-yard dash and running broad jump. Alex Richardson won first in the discus and twelve pound hammer throw and Kenneth Johnson came in third ins the running high jump. Mrs. J. C. Varney returned home from Trenton Saturday night. Sheriff E. Merrick of Corydon was in this place Saturday serving notices on a number of Seymour citizens to appear before the grand jury on May 21. Frank Miller and W. A. Gordon were in Sewal between trains Saturday. A. D. Montgomery of Howard was in town Saturday. M. Z. Green returned from a trip to Colorado Springs Sunday. Dr. Banning was a professional visitor in Sewal Sunday. W. A. Gordon went to Excelsior Springs for his health Sunday. Dan Bennett, Rile Anderson and Mr. Briggenhorst were Powersville visitors Sunday. About a dozen young people from this place went to Sewal on No. 3 Sunday for a picnic on the shores of the C., M. & St. P.'s big pond, returning on the southwest limited. Rev. W. E. Hardaway of the Methodist Episcopal church delivered the baccalaureate sermon in the Baptist church Sunday morning. There were no services in the other churches in the morning. Ben Ellis went to Sewal Sunday to work on a farm south of that place this week. John Smith of Unionville, Mo., visited Saturday and Sunday with his brother, Sherman, who has been quite sick with pneumonia. The opening game of the baseball season was played at Sportsman's park at this place between Seymour and Mystic, resulting in a score of 6 to 1 in favor of Seymour. Edgar Smith has gone to Omaha, Neb., where he has a position as foreman in the halter department of a large harness shop. He will take his wife to that place soon. Mrs. Barney Ward of Centerville arrived here Monday for a few days' visit with old friends. Many people fall over themselves by clinging to an idea.

10. May 24, 1907 Iowa State Bystander Des Moines, IA
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GRAND JURY IN PROBE. Hearing Evidence in Seymour Case at Corydon. Corydon.-The Wayne county grand jury has begun its sessions and the first work taken up was an investigation into the affairs of the wrecked A armers and Drovers bank of Seymour. Bank Examiner Windsor and Receiver Bird Fry were called before the body and submitted the evidence gathered from the probe of the institution. A number of depositors were also examined. LeRoy Ware, cashier of the tank, was not able to attend. owing to his illness. Sheriff Merritt, who is still guarding him, and the attending physician, said he was too weak to appear before the inquisitors. 1. S condition is about the same with a slight improvement noted.

11. May 30, 1907 Audubon County Journal Exira, IA
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GRAND JURY IN PROBE. Hearing Evidence in Seymour Case at Corydon. Corydon.-The Wayne county grand jury has begun its sessions and the first work taken up was an investigation into the affairs of the wrecked armers and Drovers bank of Seymour. Bank Examiner Windsor and Receiver Bird Fry were called before the body and submitted the evidence gathered from the probe of the institution. A number of depositors were also examined. LeRoy Ware, cashier of the bank, was not able to attend, owing to his illness. Sheriff Merritt, who is still guarding him, and the attending physician. said he was too weak to appear before the inquisitors. H S condition is about the same with a slight improvement noted.

12. July 19, 1907 Iowa State Bystander Des Moines, IA
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IOWA STATE NEWS Events of Recent Occurrence Throughout the Commonwealth. WARE IS INDICTED. RAILROADS ARE SUED. For Making False Entries on Books They Have Violated 28-Hour of Seymour Bank. Stock Shipping Law. Corydon.-LeRoy Ware, cashier of Des Moines.-Five big trunk line the wrecked Farmers' and Drovers' ilroads are made defendants in bank of Seymour, was indicted by damage suits which were startthe Wayne county grand jury on in the United States district court three new counts. Two are for makUnited States District Attorney ing false entries on the books of L. Temple, who alleges that the the institution and the third is for fendant railroads have violated the uttering false statements to Auditor of -hour stock shipment law passed State B. F. Carroll. the last congress. The governHis bond was fixed at $9,000 or is named as plaintiff in each $3,000 on each count.. Ware was arThe defendants and the rested by Sheriff Merrick at his nounts asked are: home in Seymour and twelve bondsUnion Pacific and Chicago & Northmen furnished the necessary security estern, $3,000. to give him his freedom. Illinois Central and Great Northern, The grand jury found that Ware had made misleading reports as to Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the financial standing of the bank to ,000. the state auditor and that he deliberThe suits are the first ever started ately "doctored" the quarterly statethe middle west under the new ments forwarded to Des Moines. The actment which forbids railroad other two counts are for making false ompanies from carrying live stock entries on the books of the concern. than 23 hours without food, State Mine Inspector John Caldand water. well is among the twelve men on the suit against the Atchison, Ware's bond, the other eleven being opeka & Santa Fe Colonel Temple akes the charge that L. A. Lumbar, H. S. Eckles, Adam Burkhiser, M. ho lives at Hope, Kan., shipped in Ammons, George I. Sidler, Theodore several car loads of cattle to Rosengreen, S. N. Bell E. K. Clark, John Adams, Thomas Chart, R. N. hicago. It is alleged that the road the stock all the way to Davis and George A. Sens. Every effort to induce Ware to Madison, Iowa, without food, or water and that the stock were make a statement has proven unavailprovided with these necessities ing. Receiver Bird Fry went to Sey34 hours had elapsed. There mour and tried to persuade him to six cars shipped and the 'govtell him the inside workings of how demands $500 for each car. the $250,000 defalcation was accomThe action against the Union Paciplished, but Ware maintained a stoic and Chicago & Northwestern is silence. He said the proper time and mmenced on behalf of Wm. Hayes place would be in court on the witCozad, Neb. Hayes is alleged to ness stand, and he would not talk until then. consigned six cars of cattle to icago. The two defendant roads Ware is now Indicted on seven accused of carrying the shipment counts, the other four being for fraudDunlap, Iowa, without providing ulent banking. His total bond has or water, allowing 31 hours and been placed at $21,000, all of which minutes to thus elapse. has been supplied by his bondsmen, There was but one car of stock at who are prominent men of Seymour in the suit against the Great and Wayne county. The action of orthern and Illinois Central. Fred the grand jury came as a surprise to tesman claims to have shipped a the people. It was expected that of cattle from Davis, S. D., to others would be involved in the case, icago. It is claimed that the but when Ware refused to tell the Northern and Illinois Central body what he knew the hope of in rried the animals 30 hours and 30 dicting others was abandoned. inutes without providing food rest

13. October 22, 1907 Evening Times-Republican Marshalltown, IA
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Possibility of Seymour Depositors Receiving $40,000 More Than Was Expected CLAIMS STOCK NEVER PAID IN Bank Was Incorporated For $80,000, But It is Receiver Fry's Contention That $40,000 of This Amount Has Never Been Paid In-Still Another Suit Filed. Special to Times-Republican. Corydon, Oct. 22.-There may be $40,000 more to divide among the depositors of the Farmers' and Drovers' Bank of Seymour, than was first counted upon. Receiver F. B. Fry, of the failed bank, has begun suit against the stockholders for $40,000, which he claims is part of the capital stock which has never been paid in. This bank was incorporated for $80,000 and it had been publicly given out and advertised that the stock was fully paid up. But the receiver does not think that this stock was fully paid up; in fact he thinks that only half of the stock or $40,000 was ever paid in, and he, thru his attorneys, has commenced suit against the stockholders, every one being a defendant in this se, to force them to pay in the other $4,000, which the bank has always named was paid. Mr. Fry, thru his attorneys, has also filed another suit against the stockholders of this bank for $80,000, or the double liability that the law places the stockholders of the bank in for protection of the depositors. Each stockholder in a failure like this one, is liable for the full amount of the stock and for a sum equal to the amount of stock which he owns. It is thought that all of the stockholders, with the exception of Leroy Ware, the cashier of the bank, are financially able to and will have to make this payment. Mr. Ware only owned about $1,600 so that the amount secured by this suit will be about $79,000. It is thought there is little question but Mr. Fry can collect this money, but the stockholders will likely fight the other suit very hard. Of course even with that sum they will not receive dollar for dollar on their deposits, in fact probably not over 50 cents on the dollar if they get that much.

14. November 21, 1907 The Miller Press Miller, SD
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Crimes and Criminals. George Aunspach, during a quarrel in a saloon at Boone, Iowa, shot and fatally wounded W. Oviatt and Chas. Ortner. Leo Manhart, a wealthy cigar manufacturer of Kansas City, shot and killed himself at the Centropolis hotel on account of domestic difficulties. He was sixty years old. Charles Caldwell of Byesville was killed and several others seriously injured as the result of a fight at a dance at Trail Run, a mining camp near Cambridge, Ohio. Daniel C. McKnight, cashier of the Foster State bank, was arrested at Foster, Ky., charged with embezzling $10,000. It is said that McKnight lost the money in speculation. As the result of a quarrel over an election bet, William Hopkins and Frank Foley fought a duel at Fernalda, Ky. Hopkins was instantly killed and Foley is fatally wounded. Leroy Ware, former cashier of the Farmers and Drovers' Bank of Seymour, Iowa, which closed its doors recently, is now in jail awaiting trial on the charge of fraudulent banking. Mike White, C. A. Green and Frank Williams, charged with leading the mob that lynched a negro murderer at Osage Junction two months ago, were indicted for first, degree murder by a federal jury at Pawnee, O. T. Infuriated because his offer of marriage had been repulsed, Shreve Yaeger, a drunken lather, murdered Mrs. Lena Dobmeir and then almost severed his own head with a razor at Buffalo, N. Y.

15. November 21, 1907 Pierre Weekly Free Press Pierre, SD
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Crimes and Criminals. George Aunspach, during a quarrel in a saloon at Boone, Iowa, shot and fatally wounded W. Oviatt and Chas. Ortner. Leo Manhart, a wealthy cigar manufacturer of Kansas City, shot and killed himself at the Centropolis hotel on account of domestic difficulties. He was sixty years old. Charles Caldwell of Byesville was killed and several others seriously injured as the result of a fight at a dance at Trail Run, a mining camp near Cambridge, Ohio. Daniel C. McKnight, cashier of the Foster State bank, was arrested at Foster, Ky., charged with embezzling $10,000. It is said that McKnight lost the money in speculation, As the result of a quarrel over an election bet, William Hopkins and Frank Foley fought a duel at Fernalda, Ky. Hopkins was instantly killed and Foley is fatally wounded. Leroy Ware, former cashier of the Farmers and Drovers' Bank of Seymour, Iowa, which closed its doors recently, is now in jail awaiting trial on the charge of fraudulent banking. Mike White, C. A. Green and Frank Williams, charged with leading the mob that lynched a negro murderer at Osage Junction two months ago, were indicted for first degree murder by a federal jury at Pawnee, O. T. Infurlated because his offer of marriage had been repulsed, Shreve Yaeger, a drunken lather, murdered Mrs. Lena Dobmeir and then almost severed his own head with a razor at Buffalo, N. Y.

16. November 21, 1907 Ladysmith News-Budget Ladysmith, WI
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Crimes and Criminals. George Aunspach, during a quarrel in a saloon at Boone, Iowa, shot and fatally wounded W. Oviatt and Chas. Ortner. Leo Manhart, a wealthy cigar manufacturer of Kansas City, shot and killed himself at the Centropolis hotel on account of domestic difficulties. He was sixty years old. Charles Caldwell of Byesville was killed and several others seriously injured as the result of a fight at a dance at Trail Run, a mining camp near Cambridge, Ohio. Daniel C. McKnight, cashier of the Foster State bank, was arrested at Foster, Ky., charged with embezzling $10,000. It is said that McKnight lost the money in speculation. As the result of a quarrel over an election bet, William Hopkins and Frank Foley fought a duel at Fernalda, Ky. Hopkins was instantly killed and Foley is fatally wounded. Leroy Ware, former cashier of the Farmers and Drovers' Bank of Seymour, Iowa, which closed its doors recently, is now in jail awaiting trial on the charge of fraudulent banking. Mike White, C. A. Green and Frank Williams, charged with leading the mob that lynched a negro murderer at Osage Junction two months ago, were indicted for first degree murder by a federal jury at Pawnee, O. T. Infuriated because his offer of marriage had been repulsed, Shreve Yaeger, a drunken lather, murdered Mrs. Lena Dobmeir and then almost severed his own head with a razor at Buffalo, N. Y.

17. November 21, 1907 Golden Valley Chronicle Beach, ND
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Crimes and Criminals. George Aunspach, during a quarrel in a saloon at Boone, Iowa, shot and fatally wounded W. Oviatt and Chas Ortner. Leo Manhart, a wealthy cigar manufacturer of Kansas City, shot and killed himself at the Centropolis hotel on account of domestic difficulties. He was sixty years old. Charles Caldwell of Byesville was killed and several others seriously injured as the result of a fight at a dance at Trail Run, a mining camp near Cambridge, Ohio. Daniel C. McKnight, cashier of the Foster State bank, was arrested at Foster, Ky., charged with embezzling $10,000. It is said that McKnight lost the money in speculation. As the result of a quarrel over an election bet, William Hopkins and Frank Foley fought a duel at Fernalda, Ky. Hopkins was instantly killed and Foley is fatally wounded. Leroy Ware, former cashier of the Farmers and Drovers' Bank of Seymour, Iowa, which closed its doors recently, is now in jail awaiting trial on the charge of fraudulent banking. Mike White, C. A. Green and Frank Williams, charged with leading the mob that lynched a negro murderer at Osage Junction two months ago, were indicted for first degree murder by a federal jury at Pawnee, O. T. Infuriated because his offer of marriage had been repulsed, Shreve Yaeger, a drunken lather, murdered Mrs. Lena Dobmeir and then almost sev. ered his own head with a razor at Buffalo, N. Y.

18. November 22, 1907 The Herald-Advance Milbank, SD
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Crimes and Criminals. George Aunspach, during a quarrel in a saloon at Boone, Iowa, shot and fatally wounded W. Oviatt and Chas. Ortner. Leo Manhart, a wealthy cigar manufacturer of Kansas City, shot and killed himself at the Centropolis hotel on account of domestic difficulties. He was sixty years old. Charles Caldwell of Byesville was killed and several others seriously injured as the result of a fight at a dance at Trail Run, a mining camp near Cambridge, Ohio. Daniel C. McKnight, cashier of the Foster State bank, was arrested at Foster, Ky., charged with embezzling $10,000. It is said that McKnight lost the money in speculation. As the result of a quarrel over an election bet, William Hopkins and Frank Foley fought a duel at Fernalda, Ky. Hopkins was instantly killed and Foley is fatally wounded. Leroy Ware, former cashier of the Farmers and Drovers' Bank of Seymour, Iowa, which closed its doors recently, is now in jail awaiting trial on the charge of fraudulent banking. Mike White, C. A. Green and Frank Williams, charged with leading the mob that lynched a negro murderer at Osage Junction two months ago, were indicted for first degree murder by a federal jury at Pawnee, O. T. Infurlated because his offer of marriage had been repulsed, Shreve Yaeger, a drunken lather, murdered Mrs. Lena Dobmeir and then almost severed his own head with a razor at Buffalo, N. Y.

19. November 22, 1907 The Sisseton Weekly Standard Sisseton, SD
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Crimes and Criminals. George Aunspach, during a quarrel in a saloon at Boone, Iowa, shot and fatally wounded W. Oviatt and Chas. Ortner. Leo Manhart, a wealthy cigar manufacturer of Kansas City, shot and killed himself at the Centropolis hotel on account of domestic difficulties. He was sixty years old. Charles Caldwell of Byesville was killed and several others seriously injured as the result of a fight at a dance at Trail Run, a mining camp near Cambridge, Ohio. Daniel C. McKnight, cashier of the Foster State bank, was arrested at Foster, Ky., charged with embezzling $10,000. It is said that McKnight lost the money in speculation. As the result of a quarrel over an election bet, William Hopkins and Frank Foley fought a duel at Fernalda, Ky. Hopkins was instantly killed and Foley is fatally wounded. Leroy Ware, former cashier of the Farmers and Drovers' Bank of Seymour, Iowa, which closed its doors recently, is now in jail awaiting trial on the charge of fraudulent banking. Mike White, C. A. Green and Frank Williams, charged with leading the mob that lynched a negro murderer at Osage Junction two months ago, were Indicted for first degree murder by a federal jury at Pawnee, O. T. Infuriated because his offer of marriage had been repulsed, Shreve Yaeger, a drunken lather, murdered Mrs. Lena Dobmeir and then almost severed his own head with a razor at Buffalo, N. Y.