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Show J with headquarters in Denver, and of which he was secretary and treasurer. I Properties, secured by these companies I for nominal sums, it is said, were placed I in possession of subsidiary companies, incorporated with 1,500,000 shares each, of which 1,000,000 would be offered to investors ostensibly to raise funds for development purposes. Very little development de-velopment work, the government agents assert, was done, and that which was done was under the sole management of O'Hara, who charged rates very much higher than the average paid for such work. PROMOTER WHO IS ACCUSED OF FRAUD HELD DENVER, April in. John J. O'Hara, a mining promoter, who was indicted by the Federal grand .jury in session at Pueblo last week, on the charge of using us-ing the mails to defraud, was arraigned before, United States Commissioner Sanford C. Hinsdale in this city and was released after furnishing a bond of $.")Oio to insure his appearance for trial in the United States District court. On complaint of James Wilkinson Wilkin-son of Providence, R. I., an investigation investiga-tion of O'Hara 's operations was made bv Chief Inspector K. L. McKee and Field Inspector W. T. Clegg. Of a dozen doz-en or more properties which O'Hara located in Colorado and Nevada and was promoting, the investigation disclosed, dis-closed, it is alleged, that only one or two gave any evidence of the values which had been glowingly set forth in the literature which was sent through the mails to prospective investors. O'Hara began operations two years ago by organizing the Modern Securities Secur-ities and Investment, company and the Gold Bond Investment company, both |