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Show I SEYMOUR IN TOILS I ON SERIOUS CHARGE H Manage Utah Glass Company Arrested Here H At Request of Sheriff East of Utah Coun- H ty Charged With Embezzlement. H PROVO, Nov. 13. C. D. Seymour, secrcUiry nnd mnnngcr of H the Utah GIiisb compnny, wns arrested at Price upon the request of H Sheriff Henry Enst, yesterday afternoon, nnd wns brouKht bnck to Hj Provo to face nn embezzlement charge Into this afternoon. The H warrant issued on complaint of C. G. Johnson charging Seymour H with embezzlement wns sworn to last summer by C. G. Johnson of Kj Provo Hcncli, nnd chnrKcs the man with hnving sold stock to the H amount of two hundred nnd fifty dollars in tho Utah Glass com- H pany at twenty dollars per share to Johnson. The Provo Bench Hj man claima that the company was misrepresented to him to obtain H his money. After the complaint had been first sworn to Johnson H made nn effort to recover his money from the glnsn company, but HJ failed to do so, and yesterday he demanded the arrest of Seymour. H When nrrcstcd nnd taken in custody at Price, Seymour denied that H there hnd been any misrepresentation in the sale of the stock, and H mndc the following statement: Hl "Last March I sold the stock to Johnson nnd he gnve me a note; Ht for two hundred nnd fifty dollars. In May n warrant wns sworn H out for me and several attempts were made to compromise, but I m would not do so, as nothing fraudulent hnd been done. The factory PH is now 110 per cent completed with the foundations nnd the fur- 1 nnces in. The first consignment of brick wns resold to Moroni 1 H people by an agent of the Snlt Lake Pressed Brick compnny, butj m wc have brick on hand now. There aru more than three hundred B stockholders "In the compnny nnd the majority of them n.o'mcr B chnnts of Utih nnd Southern Idaho. A number of farmers are also M interested." m The Utah GUiss company wns incorporated in February, liH.'l, Hj and the following summer Seymour came to Provo with a proposi- Hj tion to build a factory in this city to make glass jars from n silica 1 H bed in Moroni in Snnpote county. At that time thu officers in-J Hj eluded people well known in Provo and the Provo Comniurciul,club H appointed the committee to investigate Seymour's proposition. At Bf n meeting held with Seymour a prominent business man offeerd aj m itc for M10 factory, but later it was discovered that Seymour and H his associates wanted to raise the bulk of the money to build a H factory in this city. It wns clnimcd by some of those who had in- H terested themselves in the compnny that Instead of selling trcas- 1 ury stock to build the factory personal stock was being sold. Local M people quit the proposition, the offer of n site or the factory was H withdrawn, nnd people refused to have anything further to do with Q the projrasition. H Since the organization of the company, Seymour nnd his nsso- K ciatcs have sold thousands of dollars worth of stock in the com- H pany, but stockholders clnim thnt they havo been unable to get a H satisfactory' report on the business, nnd the officers of the com- H pany have been threatened with arrest several times according to H reports mndo by stockholders. Changes have been made in the H board repeatedly, but Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Seymour hnve been in H control of the. company's flnnnces ever since its organization. H Former officers, when Interviewed last night, denied having any H interest in the compnny. Some interesting testimony may come M out when the case is brought to trial. |