St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-02
SQUEEZED AS LEMONS
The Gang of Mortgage Sharks
Seem Minus a Last For
lorn Hope.
Two More Of Their Number
Now Rest in the Hotel
de Bean.
The Real Uihlein Turns Up,
and Falsehood Falls to
Pieces.
Valuable Evidence Secured
From Stensgaard's Safe
and Elsewhere.

With sure and effective pressure the
strong arm of the law is squeezing the
last hope out of the disturbed pack OF
real estate swindlers. Judge Egan,
Mr.. Mum, and the fearless men under
Sheriff Beams regime are doing every
thing to crush the barefaced villainy
with which the man StenSgaard had
painted his palpable story when he was
accused of forging the Uihlein deed.
The seizure of StenSgaard3s papers,
made on Saturday, is volume OF GRIM
mating evidence against him.. Among
these papers were discovered any num-
Der of apparently valid deeds convey
ing property in this and other counties
to Stensgaard. These deeds were all
SIGNED BY THE SAME MAN -
and are considered the rankeSt of for
gerieS, presumably committed by Stems
gard and his colleagues. The notarial
acknowledgements on these spuri-
Gus deeds will play a prominent
part against others who are. still at
large, but supposed to be implicated.
Stensgaard and Chadwick were
brought before Judge Burr Yesterday
afternoon for preliminary hearing,
upon which they might be bound over
to the grand jury. Gustav UehleIH, OF
Milwaukee, arrived in the city yester-
day afternoon. He testified that he
knew Stensgaardi quite we'll, having
met him in Chicago, Milwaukee and st:
Paul on frequent occasions He said
that he at once recognized the accused
the moment he was brought into court,
and asserts that StenSgaard knew him,
too. Mr. Uihlein stated that the sigma
ture to the deed was not made by MN,
and that it was forgery. He had never
authorized any one to sell the property
in question, but believed that Stems
gard knew that he owned it.
The fact that StenSgaard was per-
sOnally we'll acquainted with Mr.. Ulil-
lein knocks the fTail.support out from
under his story that an alleged Mr..
Uihlein was present at Draper's Office
when he made the alleged trade. Ii
such a man had been present, which is
now proved to be utterly false and only
intended TO deceive, Stensgaard would
certainly have recognized the pretended
Uihlein as an impostor and would not
have paid him any money whatever.
This is a corker to Mr.. StenSgaard'S
claim, and virtually brushes that whole
story. Besides this, 1t was adduced at
the hearing that when Stensgaard was
arrested he gave description OF the
prentended Uihlein who had done"
him to an officer of the title insurance
company. When Draper was arrested
he also gave a description of the false
Mr.. Uihlein, and these two descriptions
differ as day and night. This proves
that both prisoners were
TELLING NOTHING BUT FALSEHOODS
ana it means that there is not now nor
ever was there pretended Mr.. Uihlein
in Draper's office except Stensgaard,
Chadwick, or Draper himself. The
state had nearly all its evidence in at
adjournment of court last night. This
morning the hearing will be renewed.
No new arrests have been made, al
though warrants were. outfOr several
others who are wanted, The man Carl
son, who was thought to have been ar
rested at AnoEa. has evaded the officers
and is now probably safe in Canada.
Mulick is also where he cannot be
found. and a few others are being
hunted each day.
At IL o'clock last night Sheriff Bean
arrested the tenth member of the gang.
Charles c. johnson, residing at Isl
Lawson street, is the name Of the ac-
cused, charged with forging Peter
Mixers name to deed for valuable
property. This makes six OF the pris-
oners charged with forgery and four
with larceny.