The San Francisco call., 1905-08-15
FIVE MARINERS
CONF FESS FRAUD
Admit That They Paid Coin
to Jansen for Forged
Papers Of Citizenship
CLERK RAISCH FIGURES
Principal of Navigation
College Gives Fraudulent
HOnors With the Course

Five arrests Of aliens guilty Of
fraudulent naturalization were made
YESTERDAY by United States Secret Ser
vice Agent Richard II. Taylor. All the
prisoners confessed and surrendered
the forged naturalization certificates
upon which they had secured from the
United States Local Inspectors licenses
as mates. masters and pilots. Many OF
these papers purported TO be certified
COPIES Of certificates OF naturalization
and TO be signed by William c. Raisch,
deputy county clerk, assigned to Su-
peror Judge George Bahrs' court
Raisch is under arrest on charges of
having forged the papers.
Rudolf Rasmussen, second mate or
the steam schooner Elizabeth, was the
first arrested. He secured his license
on September 2. 1903, on presentation of
g pretended copy Of a certificate of
naturalization issued by Superior Judge
Bahrs and certified by Raisch. The wit
uesses named in the paper are S. Es-
tola, 116 Berry street, and T. Johnson,
l2S Cortland avenue. Rasmussen con-
fessed to Agent Taylor that he paid z.
Jansen, known otherwise as F. Johnson,
SIS for the forged certificate in Au-
gust, 1900. Rasmussen had taken the
place OF Carl Lind, who was taken off
the Elizabeth by Agent Taylor
John O. Odland, master Of the schoon-
er PheniX, was found with a forged GER
tifcate from Judge Sanderson's court,
dated January u, 1903. Jansen, other
wise Johnson, and D. E Tldorrd were
the witnesses Tldorrd's name was
signed as deputy county clerk. Odland
confessed that he had never appeared
before any court to be naturalized and
that he had bought the forged paper
from Jansen
Upon this paper he secured a license
at Seattle as master and in this city
as pilot on October Is Of last year.
Hans Morthenson, second mate of the
Phenix, was the next prisoner. He con-
fessed that he received a forged copy
Of a naturalization certificate from
William J. Burke, who conducted a
navigation school in this city. NORTH
enseu paid Burke $50 for a course of
lessons In navigation and received the
forged paper as prize package in
1900. Since then Mr.. Burke has navi-
gated to uncharted whereabouts. His
paper purports TO have been issued by
Superior Judge Belcher on October 80,
1896. c. Sturland, 2S0 East street, and
Thomas Ahkman, 11S East street, were
signed as witnesses. Deputy County
Clerk William r. Jost's name was sign
ed to the certificate.
Julius Svenson, another prisoner, con-
fessed that he paid Jansen sl2 so for a
forged certificate purporting to have
been issued out of Judge Graham S
court and signed W. c. Raisch as clerk.
On March Is Of this year he obtained a
license as second mate upon presenta-
tion of this forged document
John Francis Green, second officer of
the steamship Siberia, was rearrested
yesterday morning Immediately after
having been discharged by United
States Commissioner Heacock. Green
was before the commissioner on pre-
uminary examination on a charge of
having obtained a mariners license by
presenting forged certificate of natu-
ralization. Assistant United States At
torney George Clark announced that
the prosecution was not then ready to
make public the evidence il had against
Sreen, as other persons not yet arrested
were implicated. The rearrest was on
on the charge or having fraudulently
registered as q voter in this city on
July Z. 1904.