The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-11
PRO MOTER is
LANDED In JAIL
Theodore Stenger Has Reached
the End of His Rope.
R0PE0 IN EASTERN SUCKERS
THREE INDICTMENTS RE-
TURNED AT KANSAS CITY.
RoPEO IN EASTERN SUCKERS

II -ANSAS CITY No. Nov. 10.-The-
n odore Stenger of this city. a well
known promoter, was today in
dicted by the grand jury on a charge
Of promoting a mining fraud. The case
was worked up by a local postofice
Inspector, who presented evidence to
the jury tending to show that Stenger.
who had advertised for sale shares in
a copper mining company in Arizona,
represented that the company owned
four mines. whereas. it is alleged, it
controlled but one. Stenger has lived
in Kansas City for the past twenty
years.
The Indictment mentions. three
counts, each being separate letter
Stenger wrote to persons with whom
he had dealings and who purchased
stock. His company was called the
Pittsburg Copper Mining & Reducing
company, and was capitalized at 81
500, 900.
The prospectus of the company set
out that IL was engaged in mining op-
erations in Yuma and Mohave coun-
ties IN Arizona, and that it owned the
Green Signal, WaYesatak Argentine
and Azur claims. The grand jury
found in its indictment that only the
Green Signal claim was actually owned
by the corporation Stenger, the find
ing of the jury says, sold stock to per-
sons and induced them to purchase
stock and turn money over to him
which the Indictment alleges he con-
Verted to his own use.
Two men, both of them school teach
ers, were directly responsible for
Stenger's arrest. One of them is H. NJ.
Richmond, a professor at the William
Jewell college in Liberty, Mo. The
other is r. n. Richmond, a brother,
who lives in Adams. Mass. These men
are said to have invested 5000 in the
company and to have RENTED $1,000
IN payment for stock sold by them. 1t
is further charged that Stenger sent
letters to the Richmonds in which he
made this statement:
I'VE have started shipping copper
and will soon be shipping OIL" when
he knew, says the indictment, that the
property was not producing. Other let
tiers giving glowing reports about the
conditions in Arizona were written
from time to time
All the letters on which the indict-
ment is based We're written during
August of 1901. The mining properties
were specifically known as being in
Box canyon on Big William Fork river
not more than fifty miles from Con-
gress Junction, Ariz. All this ground
was carefully gene over two weeks ago
by Postoffice Inspector Mckee, who
furnished practically all the evidence
upon which the grand jury based its
findings.
Stenger was also interested in other
companies, among them the Arizona
Gold s. Copper Refining company and
the Missouri-Kansas & Texas Oil COM
pany. He was accompanied in court
today by his attorneJ. Efforts are be-
ing made to have him released on bond
until the time of his trial
Stenger went to Denver from Kan
sas City in the early COS. lie was the
chief promoter of the Elk Mountain
railroad and organizer Of the Senator
Mining & Milling company, and his
connection with the latter company
brought him into notoriety. A mining
paper attacked Stenger's method and
he assaulted the editor, Edward G.
Reinert.