Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-07
MINER FAILS TO
SETTLE ACCOUNTS
Brokers Attorney States List of
Assets Given Him Prove
Worthless
LITTLE HOPE FOR CREDITORS
Lawyer Claims He Last Saw His
Client on Kansas City De-
pot Platform
LITTLE HOPE FOR CREDITORS

With assets turning to liabilities,
there is little hope that the creditors
of c. B. Miner, stock broker, will ever
receive any considerable portion of
the money they have lost through
their faith in him. Incidentally, it
appears Miner is not in Glenn Falls,
N. Y, and has not been there.
Emmett Wilson, chief deputy city
attorney, who was authorized by
Miner to take charge of his affairs
here, returned to Los Angeles Sunday
from a vacation in the east and made
an effort to find some property that
could be turned over to the creditors
to settle a part of the bills and bad
checks left behind by Miner, but the
list of assets that Miner had given to
Wilson proved either to be no assets
at all or liabilities instead. Mr.. VIII
son said yesterday he had little hope
of being able to make a settlement.
He was retained as counsel by Miner
on the trip east. They both left Los
Angeles Saturday, August 13.
II saw Miner on the train soon after
1 got aboard" said Mr.. Wilson yes
terday, "but was not sure of his
identity and did not speak to him.
Later he came into my car and sat
down beside me. He said that he was
in trouble in Los Angeles, that the
and that he had tried for two weeks
to extricate himself from a bad hole.
But he declared he had found this inn
possible, and then concluded to get out
of town for a while and let 1t blow
over. He said nothing to me about
having passed any bad checks or done
anything else of a criminal nature,
but told me that he was in debt from
900 to 100000. He gave me a list
of what he said were his assets and
retained me as his counsel to settle
with his creditors when 1 returned.
He claimed they were worth about
$4,000 and authorized me to turn over
every cent Of the money.
MINER DISAPPEARS
"The last I saw of Miner was Mon
day evening, August Is, at Kansas
City. The train stops there about
twenty minutes, and we got off and
walked up and down the platform
It was about II o'clock at night, and
before the train started I got aboard
and went to bed. Miners berth was
in another car. and whether he got or
the train and got off at Chicago ol
some other place or stayed at Kansas
City, 1 do not know, for he did moi
come back to my car again.
"I went on to Glens Falls, N. Y.
TO meet my WIG, DuI dS ItIr eS hIOn "
Miner was never within 1000 miles oi
the place. From Glens Falls 1 sent
q telegram to w. C. Patterson, vice
president of the First National bank
telling him had been retained as
Miners counsel and that I would bt
prepared to settle on my return. The
telegram was sent in all good faith.
for I believed at that time that ]
would have something to settle with,
but the investigation I have made
since I returned Sunday has shown
that the alleged assets are worth
nothing or they are liabilities.
at talked with several of Miners
creditors today and told them that If
1 can find anything at all 1 will turn
it over to them and let them divide
it. But L have little hope that any,
thing worth while will be found.
Nearly all these creditors have told
me that If Miner had come to them
and told them he was in a hole they
would have been glad to help him.
"Some reports have it that Miner
left Los Angeles with a woman, but ]
am reasonably sure he did not have
any woman with him on the train"