John J. Lawler

Involved in a great mining investment swindle of the 1890s. Exonerated after multiple appeals, seemingly as a technicality of a fine point of law in courts of Equity (read extensive verbiage as reported in Arizona Press

Associated with the Bank of Arizona

~• seems to have remained a bachelor

stayed active in AZ mining until a very late date"
https://www.newspapers.com/image/46118497/?terms=%22John%20Lawler%2...

Had partnered with Beverley T. Riggs. Together they opened the "Hillside" mine which later became the ignominious Seven Stars swindle.

Future AZT (appointed Gov) Alexander Oswald Brodie, then of the Walnut Grove Water Storage Co., was brought in to do an assessment of the Seven Stars various claims. ~•(see attached doc.)