St. Paul daily globe., 1889-06-28
Eight Men Are Arrested and
Charged With Deviltry OF
the Deepest Dye.
Excitement Among Real Es-
tate Men, Who Have Dark
Secrets to Quell.
Hundreds of Citizens Could
Arise and Expose a Terri
BILE Conspiracy.
Dead-Beats and Slippery
Tongued Rascals Dupe
the Ignorant.

Yesterdays developments in the cir
Gle of real estate and chattel thieves
were sensational to the public and
deadly to further work of the bold con-
spirators. The tongs of the law are
stretching out in dozen different ways,
and notwithstanding that eight men
charged with stealing and fraud are in
hoe, four or five more arrests are lmml-
nent. The first intimatiOn the public
had that the rogueS were operating
In their midst was through the exclusive
article published in the GLOBE OH the
morning of the 25th inst. This virtu-
ally precipitated matters, and since
then the arrests have been made thick
and fast. While the Sheriffs were roping
in the gang implicated in the Radetz
horse steal, the forgery case of Uhlein-
StenSgaard was unveiled, and the fervor
which the former robberies created was
intensified to excitement among many
real estate men who have secrets TO
quell among their heaving bosOms. With
the StenSgaard matter there is opened
field of criminal prosecution in which
500 citizens of this city could
take part against the gang now accused
of the swindling deals, out of which
they have collectively made probably
nothing short of 100000. There is now
supposed to be dozen or more persons
implicated among them. three notarieS
who have acknowledged any number of
the worthless deeds and mortgages
which the gang has negotiated. No
one denies that August Uhlein's name
was forged to the deed which conveyed
his block, % of Auerbach u Hands adj
dition to st. Paul. to the man Stems
gard. The deed was drawn up in f.
l.. Draper's office, one of the men now
under arrest.
DRAPER's STORY.
The transaction, according to Draper'S
story, was made about two weeks ago.
when Stensgaard asked Draper to sell
$4,000 in mining stock, or trade the
same for real estate. Draper advertised,
and claims he received a reply from
August Uhlein, of Milwaukee. After
several days of negotiations NIr. Uihleiu
is said to have met Draper in his office.
and offered property valued at 81, 900
for the $4,000 worth of mining stock;
$500 in cash, and a note for $4,000, paya-
bic in ten days. Stensgaard was pres
ent, and stated that in order to
raise the funds for the cash
payment he would procure a loan
upon the property if Uhlein would give
him the deed for that purpose and take
the $500 and wait ten days for the bal
ance on Stensguard's note. Draper
states positively that Stensgaard there
upon paid the pretended Uihlein the
$500 in cash, and proceeded at once to
have the Title Insurance company pass
11pOO 10 itia oDI uiya him n nn1ioy in
suring it for $4,000. Stensguard Sc
cured this policy from the Title Insur-
ance company, and carrying out his
original intention, he managed to get
loan of 81, 800 upon the property through
law firm of this city. On the fol-
lowing Monday, Draper claims, Stems
gard paid the mysterious Uhlein's
the remaining $4,000. Uhlein, as Dra-
per says, disappeared Immediately
thereafter, and has not been heard of
since.
A TIMELY MEETING.
When the title insurance company
learned, through mere accident, that
the signature to Stensgaard's deed was
purely forgery, the authorities were
notified and officers set to watch and
follow certain suspicious characters, in
Guiding Stensgaard. The discovery is
due to timely meeting between Ii. Ii.
Hillman and Phil Sittman, the latter
the real estate agent and representa-
tive of Mr.. Uhlein. of Milwaukee.
AS the TWO gentlemen met, the
former remarked to the latter
that Mr.. Uhlein had sold his block too
cheap, whereupon the astonished MIR:
Sittmann replied that Mr.. Uhlein had
made no sale whatever. This led to an
investigation of the published real es-
tate records and there was printed the
account of the bogus transfer. Mr..
Sittmann at once wrote his employer
and learned that there had been no sale
and thus the matter was communicated
to the insurance company, which set to
work to unravel the mystery which re-
suited in Stensgaard'S arrest.
ARRESTS MADE.
There have been arrested Louis
Stensgaard, j. 3. Tall and L.
the loaning concern doing busi-
ness on Eighth and Jackson
streets, T. L. Draper, the notary and
real estate and loan agent, with Office
at 317 Wabasha street: Charles Chad
wick, Edgar Carver, Gerhard Thaden
and George Kingsley. The latter is out
on bail. Yesterday Stensgaard,
Draper, Chadwick and Tall were
brought before Judge Burr to have bail
set. Draper Offered MS DrOtner-lll-laW'S
bond for 81, 800, but Assistant County
Attorney Mum objected because the
questions put to Hubbard, the would-be
bondsman, elected the information that
all of Hubbard's belongings were de-
rived through the ''gang." Draper's
father then offered to go his sons
bond, but this was also declined,
The entire band of charged thieves
were then marched before Judge
Brill, of the district court, where they
were remanded back to Jail to spend
the night with Jailor Garrity and appear
before Judge Kelly at 10 o'clock this
morning. Stensgaard's bondsmen were
present before Judge Brill, and the
prisoner thought his liberation would be
but the work of moment, but when
they were asked to sign the bond to the
state their confidence in the prisoner
failed them, and they fatty refused and
left the room. So Mr.. Stensgaard, with
the rest of his accused thieves, put up
within the confines of the county jail
last night.
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