The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-09-26
OFF TO HONOLULU.
The Flight of a Double
Defaulter.
Edmund Ahlemann's Shortage to
the Krieger Verein and an
Insurance Company.

Edmund Ahlemann. financial secrets ry
of the Deutscher Krieger Yer il, has
shaken tie dust of San Francisco from his
feet and is now supposed to be en- route TO
Honolulu on the steamer Mariposa.
Ahemann is double defaulter He has
not only betrayed the confidence of the
members Of the hrieger Verein but also of
Voss, Conrad & Co.. general agents of the
Aachen' and Munic Fire Insurance Com
pany, who employed him as solicitor and
collector.
The Krieger Verein is one nf the Oldest
and m ost influential of the German socie-
ties in the city. There are over 800 men,
bers, MANY Of whom reside in interior
counties. Each member must have served
term in the German army. The dues
are 81 per month, and on the death of a
Der the others are taxed ST. each for
funeral expenses and other necessaries.
AhlemaDn. as financial secretary, COL
lected the dues. AT The regular meeting
of the verein last Wednesday night in
the B'nai Birth Hall be was to hand over
to the treasurer the dues he had collected
for the past quarter. which included the
dues on two deaths. He failed to put in
an appearance. Next day inquiries were
made by a committee at his house, 1421
Ellis street, and his wife said she had not
seen him since Tuesday, tie day prior to
the MEETING. Voss, Conrad & Co. were
also called upon, ana they had not seen
him for two days. Both parties came to
the conclusion that he had absconded, and
at once began an investigation.
I'VE are not quite sure yet, said Adolph
Becker, eX-presIdent of the Kruger Ve:ein,
last night, what his shortage will amount
TO, but it cannot 0e less than $3.50 10 $500.
aud probably much more, as he has been
collector for several years. We will re-
qure to see the receipt books of each of
the members, and as large number of
them live In other towns of the State il
will take some little time yet to arrive at
the exact amount.
"Ahlemann was no good, and we should
have been more careful in view OF his past
history. While employed by the Liberty
Bakery he swindled them out of consider
able money. Then be started a restau-
rant and coffee-house on Fourteenth and
Mission streets, sold out and TOOK trip TO
Germany. When he came back be vio-
lated an agreement between him and the
man who bought bim out by starting a
restaurant and cOffee-house next door.
This venture was not successful and he
failed, which served him right. He next
started liquor saloon on Fourth street,
but his bad luck followed him and he
again failed. Then he went into the in-
surance business.
"He was brute to his young wife and
OAtOn uoOo W OOob bCls IlOm
| don't think she is sorry that he has lett
her.
I'VE have been very unfortunate re-
Gently. as our president, Ernest Kaiser,
skipped out two or three months ago and
took several hundred dollsrs belonging to
the society with him."
From the way in which Mr.. Becker
talked it was evident the society does Tot
wish the full extent of Ahlemann's de-
falcations to De made public. The loss will
probably run into four figures. The men,
bers feel very sore at being swindled by
their president and financial secretary
within so short Il lime and would no doubt
have preferred to have kept it to them
selves and suffered in silence.
V0ss, Conrad & Co. admitted Yesterday
that Ahlemann was Gefauiler. He had
been employed by them about a wear as
solicitor and collector. They had already
discovered over $500 in premiums that he
had collected and had not accounted for.
No doubt the total of his populations
would exceed that sum, but TO what extent
could not be known for some time vet.
They had no idea where Ahlemann had
gone.
The members OF the Krieger Verein feel
sure that AhlemaDn left by the Mariposa
last Thursday for Honolulu, where he had
lived for short time before setting In
this city. He was last seen on Tuesday
afternoon, and thew think he had kept out
OIL the way till the steamer sailed.