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Show CHARGES MUE SAYSW1LLIAMS Comptroller Accused of Unfair Management of . Insolvent Bank. "WASHINGTON. July 24. A. E. Jones, counsel for independent stockholders or the old First National bank of Union-town, Union-town, . Fa., testifying today before the senate banking committee, charged John Skelton Williams, comptroller of the cur-reiicv. cur-reiicv. with unfair management of the bank's affairs after its failure and with having a personal interest in the disposition disposi-tion of lO.OvO shares of coal mining stock piven by J. V. Thompson, the bank presi- 1 dent, to secure his indebtedness. : Mr. Jones said the sto'k had been turned over to the comptroller under an agreement by which Mr. Thompson was to be s1ven an opportunity to redeem it for ?;ri'.'"0. He also testified that Mr. Williams had this stock aliened to himself him-self and that the comptroller's representative represen-tative went to a meeting of bank stock- , hoid. rs and controlled tliat. meetint for ! the purpose or" bringing about tiie sal-1 1 of ti e coal stork. "The chirp's are absolutely without basis." said Mr. Williams, who follower! Mr. Jones before the committee. "I want to denounce Mr. Jones 0.3 a contemptible Bianderer in charging that I have any personal motives in this matter. His Btatements are full of inconsistencies." |