The herald., 1898-01-27
MULHAUSENS TRIALS
HE TELLS DESPICABLE STORIES
IN HIS OWN DEFENSE
Assails the Character of Landladies to
Get Clear of Charges of Theft
Preferred Against Him

Carl Muhlhausen, also known as Carl
Schilling, William Schilling, Carl Schlitz
and Mr.. Stein, the chevalier d'industrie
and rascal who has victimized many
lodging house landladies and keepers
of houses of tolerance, was on trial yes
terday before Police Judge owens, sit
ting without jury, on the charge of
petty larceny brought against him by
Mrs. Herminie Stoll, who made COM
plant to the effect that the fellow had
taken from her the sum of $15 on De-
cember 18th.
The story of how Mulhausen obtained
that money was told a short time ago
in The Herald. The complaining wit
ness narrated how the prisoner had
come to her place and by means of spe-
cious and mendaciouS stories, after he
had taken a room in her lodging house,
obtained SIS from her by pretending to
leave as security with her two checks
for about $6C0, which he made her be-
lieve he placed into an envelope. IN
stead of that he flimtlammed her ana
when the enclosure was opened 1t was
found by Mrs. Stoll to contain nothing
but a piece of blank paper.
The prisoner took the stand in his
own behalf and told cock and bull
story to clear himself which was thin
ner than gauze. When cross-eXamlned
by Deputy District Attorney James he
grew argumentatiVe and insolent ana
had to be checked by the court. His
story was that he had taken lodgings
at Mrs. Stoll's place and that she mad
forthwith become enamored oil ms
charms. For a fat, ugly little scoundrel
this Mulhausen is about as concelted
an ungrammatical speaking mortal as
any that was ever charged with de-
frauding female This line OF defense
of assailing d Woman's virtue when she
finds it necessary to prosecute him FOR
swindling, Mulhausen has stuck to
throughout all his judicial troubles in
the Los Angeles police courts
In this case he again made use OF 1t.
pretending that he had so completely
seduced Mrs. Stoll by his charming man
ners that she proposed to keep him as
a guest in her bedchamber on the sec
ond night of their acquaintance and, as
a matter of fact, did SO. He also told
that on that occasion he had been in
vited to dinner by her and had con-
tributed "a lopsdter a cake, rhineWine,
a bottle of mumps und Won of Pome-
roy" These foreign apellations, he said,
were the names of brands of foreign
Dshambain. He denied knowing any
thing about any fifteen dollars, but
failed to explain why he had given Mrs.
Stoll a closed envelope containing blank
paper. How her name was written on
the envelope he condescended TO unravel
by saying that it had been traced on
there by him to give one of the youthful
Stolls lesson in penmanship.
The precious sWindler could not recol-
lect a number of the stories of his
wealth and high-toned connections with
which he had beguiled his victim and
pointblank refused to answer others
when he perceived that the district at
torney was laying a trap for him. He
admitted, however, that most of his
yarns We're lies out of the whole cloth,
and excused some of his doings in the
half world which have heretofore
brought him in contact with the police
on the ground that he was no sucker"
He denied having written a love letter
to a notorious person who keeps parlor
house in this city, although the fact is
patent
After he had INDUCED in a few jeremi- |