The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-09-23

didn't see anything wrong in it.
While talking to Barney about it in
the Senate chamber he said: ''Don't
talk 50 loud. Somebody will hear
you" l talked to my father about ii
but he advised against it bat didn't
seem violently opposed to it. 1 made
a contract with Meyer, Pitts & Co.,
and Live Oak Company. Ny father
told me to dcop it; that he would have
nothing to do with anybody l had
ANYTHING to do with.
| never said nnythg, more about il.
Yost was down here and when | first
made the deal | didn't tell him to keep
it secret. Bat when he came the sec
oni time | told him to tell no one -
not even my father. [ had pat all |
had jin.the bicycle business and was
hard up for money. | hesitated to
trust my brother. with my secret but
needed thu m,aey and gave him the
statement. Then he told me TO let it
alone. | promised to do so. He
brought back $3.50. knew the amount
because was privileged character in
my fathers office, and'got the amount
out of the invoice book. I never talked
to my father except indirectly about
Live Oak Company. Ny commissions
were 81 for barrel Of X. S2,for Xxx
and s. for XXX | examined the in.
voice books about dinner time VIII an
nobody was in the OIL ;e. | got the
$500 odd dollars and thai was all.
The last paym ent was in January.
Liquor was bought in February, but [
got nothing for it.
Ny father never received I cent Of
these com missions
Mc. Abney-Do you swear positive
ly that your father knew nothing Of it
until you made your confession2
Mixson--I an under oath.
Mr.. Abney-Blt I want to remind
you of its solemnity.
Mixson-He certainly kuemnothing
from me and don't suppose the Live
Oak people told him.
Examined by Mr.. Barber:
The first money my brother got.
The next was gotten at the Atlanta
Exposition, l having writtea to M.
Yost to meet me there and told him
that package of labels would be ap-
preciated. He replied that the labels
were in the hands of Harry Gilm ore
and I could get them. Labels meant
cash. The last payment'was collected
by myself N Cincinnati. After got
back my statement didn't agree with
him by $50 which he owed me- I got
Sl,290 from Gilmore Ny first cou
tract was made in Atlanta with Mr..
PEBBLES. I was to sell the liquor to
the dispensary. My father had been
buying from them and I heard him
say it was good liquor.
Mr.. Barbsr-Then in re:D.1 for this
money you were to uss your influence
with your father, which you say you
never did except indirectly.
Mixson-Yes.
| Questioned by Mr.. Williams:
What indirect remarks did you
make to your father in favor of Live
| Oak2
Mixson: Yost wanted me to get an
order for so barrels of XXX. I re-
marked to my father few days after
that that Live Oak was pretty good
stuff Everybody liked it, and if
was him I'd buy all XXX. He could
not suspect anything from that. BE
knew nothing of my going to Cinciu-
natl. I have collected commissions
twice since my brother advised me not
to, but he knew nothing of it.
| Questioned by Governor Evans:
Why did you think it would influence
your father to say that Live Oak was
good liquor, when he knew you didn't
drink2
| Mixson: Well when anybody praises
anything it has an effect. made ov
ertures to the whiskey men, telling
them I could influence my father.
Yost claimed to be employed by tns
Board of Control.
Governor Evans: He had nothing
whatever to do with it. He assisted
Gunter during the Legislature, and
whatever pay he got came FROM Gun
ter.
| don't know what I did with the
money. Some was put in my business
The rest was spent-it's hard to say
| how. I never bothered the invoice
books in Scruggs' presence.
Scruggs: He certainly never looked
at them IN my presence. don't allow
anybody to do that.
! Nicholson: If you had mo permis
sion TO look at the books, what right
had you 70 look at them. You were
OF an illegitimate mission.
MiXson: Well, I don't know about
that.
Governor Evans: Who gave you
the privilege of being privileged per,
son in your fathers office?
Mixson: No one.
Nicholson said he simply wanted
to bring out the fact that neither Col
Mixson nor Scruggs had given him
permission and he was simply an ID
truder.
Mr.. Mixson said that when he wa!
told that he had been found out:ht
was completely demoralized. He wa!
in his Office when he wrote the Letter
to his father. No one was with me
I had no one to consult.
Colonel Mixson being recalled sait
he didn't remember his sons recon-
mendation, but he only bought one
car load Of xxx. Don't remembel
exactly the date.
COLONEL TOMPRlNS.
Colonel Tompins was called. Mr.
Abney asked him about the letter from
PEBBLES asking him and MixSon to Wis
) it to Cincinnati and whether he hat
ever tried to induce Mixson to bu!
any liquor.
Colonel Tompkins: I never did. ::
never had anything to doyith Mix
sons purchases. He then told abou
Scruggs informing him of what h
had discovered in Cincinnati. h
and Mixson went to the Governor ant
told him. They saw the boy after
!. wards and he confessed. After tina
the Governor told me he had tolt
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