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Show Mine Promoter Found Guilty Salt Lake. Charles Peter, Salt Lake mining promoter, was found guilty on six counts of an indictment charging him with using the mails in furtherance of a scheme to defraud. The verdict was brought in by a jury in the United States district court, where the case has been on trial for over three weeks. The case has been one of the longest and hardest fought of any tried in the local federal court and the conviction will cost the government gov-ernment in the neighborhood of $50,-000, $50,-000, it is said. Witnesses were brought to Salt Lake from Brooklyn, N. Y.; New Mexico, California and Oklahoma to tell stories of "bunco" stories which they said Peter used to induce them to invest in the Mascot Mas-cot mjning companies. Peter was indicted in-dicted last October by the federal grand jury on six counts, including charges of sending letters and circulars circu-lars through the mails as part of a scheme to defraud various persons of their money and property. Mining property near Hailey, Idaho, known as the Mascot mine, was also used in the scheme, it was contended by the government. |