The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-06-20
HELD IN TRUST.
Brevard Miller swears that Glass
Stock was given Directors.
SnATKMkNT DENIED.

Were rot Presented With
Stock in the Glass
Compsny.
"Wednesday an sfh6avit from MI.
B,evsrd Q. Miller, o,gaE;zer CT the
company which built the Carolina
Glass company in Columbia was put
in evidence before the 6ispenssry in
vesstgsting committee.
MuLERs AFFIDAVIT.
Personally arpeased Bievsld D.
Mnier, who beirg GUY sTCtn oepcselh
s.o sayeth.
That up to sometime il 1892, be
vas for SC net.1ce prAVieus hVlcR Ia
,he city OF Columbia, South Carolina,
being at that time connected wltn
G1anby cotton mills { I thai city. Dur
ltg The time OF his ,esioercs there ne
ceveloseo the ioes, anc was one OF
the promoters in the cr9ahizaslon OF
the Carolina Glass company. Bsins
associated II the urgsnizstlCn q thls
glass company viii Jno. J. Seioels,
Thomas Taylor, Jr., W. G. Chllos ano
e. G. Selbsls.
The lrco1 porato7s OF the Ca1chGs
Glass company realizing that tile ous-
tnsss OF the State oNpeIsary Houlo DO
sn advantage Sno iLsuss the succeea
OF the company, approached d. q
Evans AID Z. J. Williams, then q.
,ecSors Of the State IlSpeLssfy, Will
the Cf7ec to sen Lusm d cer.ain amount
OF STOCK OF lie Carll.hs Gisss ctnspa
ny 20 be pala for Il nurey al 5ue
sane p1lce as the stock Was soic so
oensr parties. ll VAS u4oersscoc at
this stage ID the LraDAacLlon that sLe
Cssoiina Glxss company vas 10 meet
competing ptlces.
Later, il was decided BY the con-
tloii,nk lnte1ests OF lne Carolina Glass
company give Tie sa:o q. q E7ans
anu L. J. Wllhams q DICK u tAls
SLork ID rcJufn lCr NL.c:i lie CAR 1. q
Glass GIN paly Was &c be gwen all, u
3 part, u the SLsLa o.sp=asary glass
business. AOouI Inis LlGe, ou.l-G
CONVERSATION oet~een J. J. Ssloels auo
81. q. Evans, ID nty presshcs Jac. '
Selbels stated thau The Carolina G.aSS
company, noe oelng Very strong nnan.
cIalIy, would not ce able to stand 1of
any isngtn VI t.nae l. cut IN prices ..
uhsii cum peLllurs, II tsnouio De maoe.
To WAlcu sls,eheLL &. h E,aLs re
pneo, o. LelI, ~e ale puS Leie tc
judge glass.
Wu.n LIE pclcy ot giving the stock
60 tie oneclols Il Tie Stsls cispslSa-
~ Nxs cIcioeo On, I Was LOU IN ac-
coro with It ano oLjscCeo 10 1t, tsai-
liz .ng thai was IN Lns ElnotlJy, ano
not at al ID accOro Wilt lhe pollcy @
tie lncol puralors, AID thai coul~
not preVeuL Lnls glfu vi slock, CT sucn
actlous as ~CuIo saturally follow, l
Withdrew from tee company ano my
interests wore Laksn over by oshel
pS1tieS.
IL was my unders anding at the
time withdrew thaI This gift OF
stock was 10 be mace 10 W. G. Chllos
as trustee for 81. q. Esans and L. ]
Williams.
Il was ny understanding, up to the
time Of my decision 10 Withdraw fson
the Carolina Glass company, that the
Carolina Glass company was to meet
competitive prices, and that the a.
recaors Of the State 6ispeussry were
IT, be stockholders On the same basis
as the ineorporators, whereas this
gift OF stock, to which I objected,
wcule give the inference that the
Carolina Glsss company would be ia
vored by the directors OF the State
dispsrsary.
At q meeting Of the incorporstors
Of the Carolina Glass company at
which this gift OF STOCK was discussed
ard from which 7 withdrew after re-
signing my intere SIS, I vas requested
by Jno. J. Seibels to say nornlng o.
my knosledge OF the trarssctions c;
the Carclins Glass company. This l
refused to do.
It has been several years since the
transaction related above occurred,
but the same Is substantially SIS re-
lated above.
Brevsrd D. Miller,
Sworn to and subscribed to before
me, this 18th day OF April, 1906.
J. r Wharton,
Notary Public.
MILLER FLATLY CONTRADICTED.