Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-05-03
The way they do things in California.

The Freeman, Love and Truth of God
The way they do things in California.
The correspondent Of the New York MIR
ror. gives the following account Uf a wholesale
swindler, and his plan of operations
New systems of fraud and villainy are al
most daily exposed, and always does the ex-
posure come Just too late 10 afford Justice the
arrest OF the perpetrators. Meiggs-honest
Harry Meiggs-struck out in a somewhat
new line, although that elegant Wall street
6naucier, Schuyler, gave him a cue; but these
two are pale before the brilliant accomplish
ment of the latest operator-G. Hubert San
ders. This gentleman came to our city some
three years ago, poor and meek. He hired
him small Office, engaged with a partner
equally poor and the two hung out a modest
yellow painted sign, which told that they
were "Attorneys and Counsellers at Law. -
Sanders IS Frenchman, believe hence he
soon got q very fine practice from his eoun-
trymen.. He had married an American lady
in one Of the Eastern cities, widow, the
mother of two girls-one Of dazzling beauty.
The family moved to this city. The Won
derful beauty Of the daughter drew to their
house crowds of admirers-the wealth and
aristocracy of our city.
Soon the family became noted in high cir
cles, and some even assigned to them the
front rank among the tom. They rode in the
finest cariagein the town, had the best hor-
ses, and plunged into all the extravaganza es-
sential TO support their newly assumed posi-
ton. The beauty married lawyer of some
wealth, Mr.. Alfred Wheeler. The party
given on the occasion eclipsed anything OF
81 -, he Al
the accumulation of business, Sanders felt Il
necessary to purchase the appointment OF
Notary Public, merely to facilitate his own
practice for he was now a Convevancer,' -
and loaned other peoples money on "the
best secured real estate,'' and by having the
authority TO take the Acknowledgements of the
borrowing and loaning parties in his own Of
fce, he was saved the trouble and annoyance
of running here and there to affix the Nota-
rial sea-. He did the largest business of the
kind in town. Frenchmen especially conf
ded in him They were not going to put
their money in banks, for sometimes banks
failed they were determined to invest safe
~, put their money ia mortgages upon the
best improved, well secured real estate in the
city-so they went to Sanders, and he did the
business for them aR
G.. Hubert Sanders was now one of our
wealthiest citizens, certainly the most extra
VACANT He drove span of sorrels before a
light buggy in the morning, span of blacks
70 handsome rockaway in the afternoon, and
in the evening he sported carriage and
spanking pair Of bays. His Office hours were
shortened "fromS till 5" down to "from 1C
to q" but between those hours he was always
in his Office, save at lunch hours, when, if any
of his distinguished family were "down shop
ping he would escort them to the ice cream
saloon, and the skill of the catering artistes
was taxed to their utmost in providing dain-
ties for them
On one occasion last year, when strawber-
RES first appeared in the market, it is said
himself and Mrs. Wheeler ate the moderate
allowance of 800 worth each, at a single
sitting. The stories now told of his lavish
extravsgence would fill fair sized ectavo-
About two weeks ago, the eldest daughter
was married to a gentleman of Sacramento
Another magnificent and costly entertain
ment was given on the occasion. Young
wife-hunters moumed that there were nc
more daughters in the family, so that they
might too form matrimonial alliance with
% distinguished set. Their soirees out
shone those Of all others. To be invited a
Sanders was the zenith of bliss to all cod
6shdom.
But time works wonders. The mutation,
Of human life are beyond the power or the
prediction Of man. Last week, G.. Huber
Sanders was arrested on q charge of forgery
and was released upon giving bonds in The
sum Of $4,000 for his appearance at court t.
answer the charge. His son-in-law and hi
partner were his sureties. That evening h,
Ted, and has not yet been found nor heard of
The following day, forged mortgages anc
deeds were discovered In his Office, upol
which he had raised over 100000. In on,
instance, he actually mortgaged a mans owl
property TO him for $4,000, and, strange t.
tell, the poor fellow never discovered it unit
the news of the forgeries was two DAYS old
To some he gave mortgages upon the high
way, the boundaries and descriptions beinl
given IN the usual style He also drew mort
cages upon the property of Bolton P. Banon
John Parrott Samuel Brannan, and Others O
our wealthy men, who never had dollar ND
on their estates. All these he conveyed t.
his victims, who paid him their money, gave
him his commission confident in the securit,
that held their funds. One great cause VIII
he was enabled to continue his frauds so lon,
undiscovered, Is the fact that nearly all of HI
sufferers are French, who do not understand
our language, and who were ignorant of tn
legal procedure in such cases Every, day, s.
far, has brought to light some new act of hi
villainy. aosIse sa ~
Of all our splendid rascals, Sanders ha
proved himself the chief. His new system o
robbery is entitled to the first rank in tn
Patent Office Of rascality, and the old styl
forgers, such as Munroe Edwards was, mus
not hope for the distinguished reputation tina
Is 50 richly inerited by Sanders, Meiggs, anc
Schuyler. si - ne