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Show OIL SWINDLE REVEALED BY NEW YORK ARRESTS NEW YORK. Sept. 29 An indictment indict-ment charging use of the malls to de-1 fraud was returned by the federal, grand Jury against the Stanton oil company, K. M. Stanton company. Inc.. brokers, and three alleged pro-1 motors, Katherine M. Stanton. Frank I A. Dwyer and Albert J. Froelich. The company, capitalized at $3,000,-1 00 In shares of $1 par value, had not been In business two weeks when a dividend of 3C per cent was declared, according to Federal Attorney Simmons, Sim-mons, who presented the case to the grand jury This was four months before be-fore the company sold any oil. he said, making the dividend Illegal Although Al-though at no time were more than L'ufi barrels of oil a day produced from the company's holdings In West Virginia Vir-ginia and Texas, circulars advertised 1,200 barrels as the dally production, said the federal attorney t |