Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-05-18 | Page 11 | Charles Peter Hints Plot in Mining Suits

CHARLES PETER . HINTS PLOT III MINING SUITS Salt Lake Man Facing Trial in New York ln-t ln-t dined to Be Reticent on Arriral in City Charles Peter, local mine promoter pro-moter and operator, who was detained de-tained In Kew York City laat February Feb-ruary e. charges growing out of tha altered fraudulent aale of stork In the Maarot mine near Heller. st' Ida, returned to Bait Lake Satur-day Satur-day afternoon. Mr. Peter cam. home fully ln-dlrated ln-dlrated In the court of Maglatrate . Conway. Queen, county, which he declared la an the mainland aide of the Hlatue of lJherty,Hoever, he was held to anawer lo . the charge In th. court of Magistrate Undsay. Kings county, which Ilea on the Brooklyn aide of the Kaat t river. He la atlll under bond in the aum of Cl.ooa. which bond, however, how-ever, ha expects will be materially reduced, as no trial data has yet bees set, and pending thla formality, formal-ity, now overdue In tha eatimata of Mr. Peter, ha believe, hla attomeya will be able to hav. th. bond reduced. re-duced. f"lt la tha atory of any ambitious mining promoter who start, out to .pioneer a mining dlatiict," aald Mr. Peter. "Rig financial Interests offer of-fer assistance when things begin to look favorable. But .when they become be-come too favorabre thee, earns In- teraata often hatch up diabolical achemea to get full control of th. property for themaelvea." Mr Peter waa loath to speak C freely of his cxperienc. in the ' courts of New York, excepting that ha waa anxloua for the trial data to be set. that h. might have hla "day In court." He aald he wanted It to na made known to hla frlenda la tha West that he waa never more deter- mined to carry on than now. He etated the Mascot mine waa in the p leat physical condition of Its history, his-tory, with svsry mln. Indication now favorable to tha property entering en-tering the ahlpplng claa. In tha near future.