Show promoter seymour 01 0 1 rr gets liets in irl trouble Kouble JL the following from the tha provo post is in regard to 0 D seymour who with his wife has mado many visits to price and has sold consider able stock in the utah glass company to local people C D seymour secretary and manager of the utah glass company was arrested at price upon the request of sheriff henry east thursday afternoon and was brought back to provo friday afternoon to face an embezzlement charge the warrant issued on complaint of 0 G John johnson soli charging seymour with embezzlement was worn sworn to last summer by 0 G johnson of provo bench and charges the man mart with having sold stock to tou the value of in the utah glass company al at 20 per share to johnson tho the provo bench man claims that the company was misrepresented to him to obtain hio his money the complaint had been first sworn to johnian made an effort to recover his money from froin the glass crim company pany but failed fallad tu to do so and wednesday ho he demanded the arrest of seymour when at arrested and taken into custody at price mr seymour denied that there had been any misrepresentation sen tation in the sale cf of the stock and made the following statement last march I 1 sold the stock to mr john johndon ion and ho he gave me a note for in may a warrant was sworn out lor or me and several attempts were made to compromise but I 1 would not do so no aa as nothing fraudulent bad had been done the factory is now 30 per cent completed with the foundations and the furnaces in the first consignment of brick was resold to moroni people by an agent of the salt lake pressed brick company but we have brick on hand now there are more than stockholders in the company compi iny and aud the majority of them are merchants of utah and southern idaho A bucs ber ba of farmers are also interested the utah glass company was incorporated corp orated in february 1013 1913 and the following summer mr seymour came to provo with a proposition to build a factory in this city to make glass jars from a silica bed in moroni county at that time the officers leers off included people well known in n provo atil an the provo commercial club appointed a committee 0 o investigate mr se Sea ours proposition at a meeting held with mr comour a prominent business man offered a site for the factory but latek it was discovered that mr seymour and bis his associates wanted to raise tho of the t be money to build bu id a factory fa 0 tor V in I 1 u this city it was claimed by some of those who bad had interested themselves in the company that instead of laell 11 in ing treasury tr abury stock to build the factory personal stock was being sold and local people quit the proposition and tile offer of a sliu situ for the factory was withdrawn and coall people refused anything further to do with the proposition since the organization of the company mi seymour and his associates have sold thousands of dollars worth of stock in the company but stockholders claim that they have been unable to got a satisfactory depoi i on oa the business and the officers officer 2 of the company have been threatened with arrest several times according to reports made by stockholders chalees have been made in the board repeatedly and mr and MM 0 D seymour have been in control of tho ever since its organization former officers when interviewed friday night denied having baving any interest in the company some hite interesting resting testimony may come out when the case re is brought to trial iria |