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This FBI Freedom of Information release collects Albuquerque field office reports from July 1970 to May 1971 on Silas Mason Newton, the Buckhorn Mining Company and the Magnetic Research Foundation, which were investigated for interstate transportation of stolen property and confidence games. Agents suspected that Newton was running a salted mining swindle near Silver City, New Mexico, since assays found no mercury or silver in the ore. The file also lists his arrest record. The case was closed after a lender said he had not been swindled.
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3/31/71 furnished the following information: He has no recent information concerning the whereabouts of SILAS NEWTON He said NEWTON was scheduled to appear in District Court, Silver City, during the past week but he understands the appearance has been postponed because NEWTON is reportedly ill somewhere in California. advised that the is operated by one and it does not appear at this time as though either NENTON or have an interest in this venture. also said that he had no additional information concerning the identity of (first name unknown) the been in contact with people from who are interested in investing in mining ventures with NEWION
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FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 28 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.