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Show FARE PROMOTER MS ! FLED FROM BOSTON John II. Renigcv Said to Have Secured a Million From Gullible Investors. Specfal to The Tribune. BOSTON, March 2S .John H. Pen-igor, Pen-igor, president of the .1. H. Kcnigcr company and a "get-rich-quick'' promoter, pro-moter, has been "liiisslilg from Boston for six weeks while an indictment is hanging over him, jointly with Thomas H. Windsor, for using tho mails in n scheme to defraud. Soveral hundred thousand gulliblo Now England investors invest-ors aro mourning tho round million dollars dol-lars that ho extracted from their pockets pock-ets in oxchango for worthless stocks. In somo cases, it is alleged, ho ;cven withhold tho stocks, oven as did Car-denio Car-denio F. King, who flashed across tho financial horizon not long ago with Douglas Copper, King Crother Oil. Norton. Nor-ton. Oil and other stocks for salo. King is now serving a sent onco in state's prison, and Postal Inspector Mc-Lcod, Mc-Lcod, who has chargo of tho caso against Itcnigcr, hopes to land tho latter lat-ter in a federal prison. The companies Bcnigev touted wore tho Nevada, Goldficld Mining, Milling and Smelting company, and tlio American Amer-ican Mines company, limited, of Arizona. Ari-zona. Inspector McLcod found on investigation investiga-tion that neither company has enough property or oro in sight to justify tho enormous capitalization or Iicuigcr's glittering promises. |