St. Paul daily globe., 1889-06-30
GATHERING THE GANG
Ramsey Jail Becoming Filled
With the Mortgage
Crooks.
The Stensgaard Safe Blown
Open to Obtain Desired
Documents.
Desperate Effort All Around
to Be the First tc
Peach.
The State Accumulating the
Evidence Of the Gree.t
Fraud. :

And still they come. Yesterday was
an eventful day for the sheriffs and the
county attorneys who are pinning the
real estate scoundrels to the walls OF
the county Jail. Another member OF
the gang, Christ Peterson Lipdstad, was
arrested late yesterday afternoon in a
saloon on the corner of Seventh and
Locust streets, where he is barkeeper.
Linstad is directly charged with forging
note of S75, and passing it
upon DR.. Mahan, who has his Office
on the corner of Fifth and Wabasha
streets over the Germania bank. The
arrest was made by a deputy sheriff
and Mr.. Mum, and the surprised Lind
stad confessed all and at once begged
immunity for which he desired to turn
states evidence and give such testi-
mony, he said, as would convict the
whole gang. Lindstad is the ninth man
Gagged, and when seen by GLOBE re-
porter he was very glib in his denuncia-
ton of Tall and Particle, the men
Draper and Thaden. He said that these
men came to him with house upon
which they SAID they were anxious to
secure a loan. They told him that
they were unable to get the
loan, and offered him a commits
sion if he would negotiate one for
them. This he undertook to do by dup
ing DR.. Mahan with note of SIS, Sc
cured upon the crOwbait steed. 1t will
be noticed that the accused's name is
Christ Peterson Lindstad. He repre-
sented himself to be Christ Peterson,
and signed the note as such. This is
pure forgery, and is included IN gen.
eral charge upon several other forgeries
which he is accused Of. All the men
save Kingsley and Carver are still in
Jail, unable to secure bail. Edgar Car
yer is more unfortunate than crooked,
and has been drawn. into the gang by
his association with some of its MEM
bers, who were constantly doing him
up. AS yet he is only held as
very important witness, not
charged with participating in any
of the crimes attributed to the others.
Yesterday afternoon he gave bail in the
sum of $1,000, and was released. He is
and has been frightened out of years
growth and appetite by the peremptory
manner in which the authorities dealt
with him. John w. Willis represents
Chadwick and Stensgaard. He has been
unable to find bail for his clients due,
as he says. to the prejudice which the
press is generating against the swln-
dlerS. Their bail was set at $1,000, and
they will be arraigned Monday after
noon. -.
THE PoRTcULLIs FELL
when. through mere accident, the
Title Insurance company discovered the
Uihlein fraud. and it is most singular
how both ends of the crooked Organiza-
ton should explode at nearly the same
time. When Stensgaard was arrested,
and the de tails of his case known, there
seemed strange yet consistent affinity
Draper and the others. Yet at that
time, no one had the assurance that
Stensgaard was at all connected with
the others. The authorities are now
almost positive that Stensgaard was the
head and front of the conspiracy, with
Thaden, Draper and Tall Il Particle
following close in his wake. When he
commanded the rest of the herd acted,
and then a scramble for the spoils. The
scramble for spOilS has engendered bad
blood between different members of the
gang, and those who have old scores to
settle with the others are
beseeching the authorities for
the privilege to turn and squeal.
There is plenty of squealing being done
on the outside, however, and the baS-
tile will not be rent with the wild tales
of one cOnspirator against the other.
Backed by the Title Insurance company
and impelled by his characteristic zeal,
Mr.. Mum has endeavored to secure
the private papers of Stensgaard, which
were locked in the desk and safe in. his
office. number 206 East Seventh street.
With this in view, Stensgaard's Office
was secretly visited Friday afternoon.
on entering, Attorney Willis and MIR.
Osborne were found in charge. An
officer explained to Mr.. Willis the ma
sure of the errand, and demanded &C
cess to the desk and safe. This Mr..
Willis refused to give, at the
same time forcing the officer
away from the desk upon which he held
his hand. Some verbal pyrotechnics
followed, during which police officer,
Judge Egan and several other officials
were called by telephone. Judge Egan
and MF. Willis argued the law of the
matter across the desk, while Mr.; os-
borne was being instructed to allow
neither Mr.. Willis nor a stranger to
tamper with anything in the Office. The
dispute was finally settled, when the
entire party left, leaving Mr.. Osborne
in charge. Things maturing somewhat
over night, Mr.. Mum and Judge Egan-
secured the necessary search warrants
yesterday morning, and, armed with
these and some of Sheriff Beams
get into Stensgaard's desk and safe
despite Mr.. Willis eloquent tongue.
When the office was again attacked
about yesterday noon, Mr.. Willis, who
was found seated at Stensgaard's desk,
again refused to give up the keys to the
desk or the combination to the safe.
The officers then proceeded to the Jail
and demanded the combination of Stems
gard himself. He also chuckled in his
sleeve and
DEFIED THE INTRUSION.
/ Not to be outdone by any manner of
means, the officers obtained the order of
the court to force their way into any
building or receptacle which might
hold from the authorities the desired
evidence. Down they go again, this
time with "Charlie" Miles and enough
powder to blow the hopes of the most
sanguine member of the plot. This time
the men meant business, and as MIR.
Willis again refused to open the safe, a
hole was bored in its face, powder in
serted, and with a terrible bang the
hidden treasures were revealed. The
door was blown from it's hinges, and the
state simply says nothing about the con-
victing proof thus secured against
Stensgaard, but intimates that fifteen
years at Saltwater for forgery in the
first degree will be about what three of
the prisoners will get if the scales of
justice are not rusty. The find in the
desk and safe is ample, and its nature
and true value to the states case
against the conspirators, and especially
against Stensgaard will remain secret
until the day of trial.
E. j. Mullck, once respectable
young attorney fourishing on the West
side. is the young lawyer referred to by
the GLOBE on the morning it gave the