The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-09
SAY 1T is JUGGLED.
Charged That Schlitz Company Is
Hiding It's Property.

In a supplemental report on the
Joseph SchIitz Brewing company filed
with the Kansas supreme court
Thursday afternoon, the receivers
claim that three or four employees OF
the Joseph Schlitz company are per-
forming remarkable stunts of Juggling
with Schlitz property for the purpose
of keeping it out of the hands of the
receivers.
Henry UihIein and August Uihlein'
president and secretary respectively
of the real estate end of the Schlltz
corporation, c. E. Meyer, another en-
ploye' with headquarters in Milwau-
kee, and Frederick c. Mueller, anoth-
er employe at Chicago, are the ones
in whose possession the Schltz prop
erty is being held, according to the re-
Ssivers' report.
Tme receivers say that title to all of
the schlitz company realty in Wyah-
dotte county was in the name OF Au-
gust Uihlein with the exception OF
two pieces, lot on Ewing street, and
lot /, block 4S, which is held in the
name of Henry Uihlein, president or
the realty branch of the concern.
They say that when c. w. Trickett,
special assistant attorney general for
Wyandotte county, became active in
his campaign against the liquor busi-
ness, c. H. Meyer was given mort
gage on the property to secure pre-
tended debt of $1OS,000, which was
more than the value of the property
mentioned. Moreover, it is stated, the
indebtedness was purely fictitious and
for the purpose of evadlng law They
cite further that Henry Uihlein and
wife executed a mortgage on their
supposed property to secure an al
legged debt of $4,000. 1t is said. too,
in this case, that this mortgage was
more than the value of the realty. 1t
was claimed that the latter part of
last July, August Uihlein executed to
Frederick c. Mueller, quit claim
deeds to tracts of property still in his
name, namely, lot 1, block "a, Ew-
ing's addition to Argentine and lot 1,
block 1. Browns addition to Rose
dale; The receivers assert at the close
of the part devoted to Wyandotte
county that in their opinion the
Joseph Schlitz Brewing company has
been the real owner of the properties
all of the time.
In Atchison county, the property,
the receivers say was transferred to
August Uihlein who last October ex-
ecuted a mortgage to C. H. Meyer to
secure a pretended debt of SIS, 900.
In this case again the receivers allege
the action to be a subterfuge to es-
cape the law.
The Leavenworth properties of the
company. according to the report are
much greater in number than those in
Atchison- The receivers say that the
80 feet of lot s. block 81. was bought
by the defendant company in 1898
and transferred to Frederick Mueller:
lots and 8, block 50, decided to
Mueller; lots Is and 16, block %.
bought in 1898 and decided to Mueller;
lot 1, block A. bought by the COM
pany in 1900. and decided to August
lots Is and 16, block 46,
bought by the company in 1896. after
ward transferred to August Uihlein
for a consideration of one dollar; lots
1, 2, and 4, block 103, Day & Nc
Cauley's subdivision of Leavenworth,
we're bought in September, 1901, in
he name Of August Uihlein, and the
next year We're transferred to Alfred
an officer of the company, in
whose name these properties still
stand. All the buildings and property
enumerated, the receivers say, were in
use or had been used in connection
with liquor business. The receivers
-eiterate statements made previously |
hat they believe these properties be- !
ong by rights to the defendant COM |
pany and that mortgages to c. H. |
Meyer amounting to $4,000 are still |