St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-23
A Queer Instrument, Alleged
to Be a Satisfaction Of
Mortgage,
Which Promises to Get Clerk
Ganyaw Into a Peck Of
Trouble.
Shareholders of the Educa.
tional Endowment Asso-
citation in a Scrap.
Yesterdays Brilliant Aggre.
cation Of Interesting We'd
ding Events.

II CHalS &c VI forgery was yesterday
afternoon preferred against Napoleon
Ganyaw, for several years a clerk i'll
the employ of the st. Paul Title In
surance company. The complaint is
lodged against Mr.. Ganyaw by the Of
tcers of the Minnesota Savings and
Building society, of which the accused
was once a stakeholder. From the
evidence gathered in the investigation
OF the case yesterday morning by
Charles Passavant and j. Hammer, it
appears that Ganyaw's wife had some
months ago mortgaged her home on
Gates street in the Sixth ward for 81 200,
the obligation being executed to parties
who assigned the same to j.
Homer Pierce. About month
ago Ganyaw made application,
through +. f. Wilde, his brother-in-
law, to the Minnesota Savings and
Building society for another loan OIL the
same property. The building society
refused to loan money ON a second
mortgage. Ganyaw then agreed to
settle the first mortgage and promised
to exhibit a satisfaction of the same,
which he stated he could procure by
deciding to Mr.. Pierce, as consideration
III ohO d CcItd lut ftc CldiUlGu lO
own i'll Summit Park addition. At the
lapse of about two weeks, Ganyaw pre-
sented satisfaction of the first mort
gage purporting to have been signed by
j. Homer Pierce before Minneapolis
nOtarysDubIic signing himself George
Mather. Upon this exhibit the society
agreed to make the loan. 1t seems the
tlme set tor contamination
urday, when Ganyaw presented
himself. accepted the loan of $1,000 and
delivered to the society the satisfaction
which is alleged to be fOrged-and a
new mortgage for $1,000. Charles Pas
savant. president of the society, ac-
cepted the instruments and recorded
them. Yesterday morning he was in
formed that the first mortgage had not
been satisfied; that no genuine release
of the ineumbrance had ever been ex-
ecuted by Mr.. Pierce, the mortgage,
and that the instrument which GangaW
had offered in satisfaction of the first
mortgage was i'll all probability for
gerry. Investigation brought close
scrutiny to bear upon the forged sigma
tufe, and it is now believed by Mr.
PaSSavant aud others who know the
writing of the accused that
ne. forged the signature of j. Homer
Pierce. In Minneapolis Mr.. Mather, be-
ing questioned about his acknowledge
ment on the instrument, said that man
representing himself as j. Homer
Pierce, of st. Paul, came to his office
and requested him to take his acknOwl-
edgment to the execution of the in-
strument. This Mr.. Mather says he
did with the usual form and ceremony.
When asked for description of the
bogus Pierce he drew very exact por-
trait of MIR. Ganyaw-deScribing him as
a short, stout man, with dark brown
hair, smooth, round face, set off with
pair of spectacleS. From this account
MI. Mather's visitor was In all prOba-
bllity the Mr.. Ganyaw wanted.
As yet there has been no apprehen-
sion of the accused. On Friday he left
the Office of the clerk of the courts,
where, at the request of his employer,
the st. Paul Title Insurance company,
he had desk at which he was, with an
charge of the company's books. At the
time of leaving the clerks Office he
stated that the imminent confinement
of his wife called him to his home,
whittier he went-it is Supposed-on
Friday afternoon. On Saturday he
called at the Office and casually re-
marked to his friends that his wife was
precariously ill and that he would re-
turn home Immediately upon the receipt
of his weeks salary, that being the
company's pay day. That was the
last seen of him by his associates
in the court house. 1t is reported
that his wife last saw him on Monday
morning, but, as the lady is confined to
her bed and babe, there is nothing
definite known of him after Saturday
3ftprnOnD HiQ UharpahOutC arc now
unknown, and the opinion is general
that he has a5Sconded. His position in
the office of the clerk of the district
court is due to his connection with the
Title Insurance company. with which
his duties made it necessary that he
should be in constant attendance in the
clerks Office, where he posted certain
books for the company from the daily
records of the court. He has been Ill
the employ of the Title Insurance COM
pany since its organization in 1887.