Julius Jourgensen

Impaled Man Dies

Jourgensen’s Tragic Death Removes Principal Witness Against Floyd in Land Swindle

Julius Jourgensen, aged 34 years, the sewer foreman who received a fatal thrust from a steel rod in the abdomen while descending a sewer trench at Twenty-seventh and Fowler avenue Monday forenoon died yesterday at 1 o’clock at Immanuel hospital. He leaves a wife and one child.

The death of Mr. Jourgensen removes the principal witness against Ernest Floyd, one of the trio of real estate sharks who were implicated in the attempt to defraud Mr. Jourgensen of the pioneer hotel, 318 South Twelfth street, on a fraudulent transcript which he and an unknown supposed to be Walsh, were implicated. Walsh has left the city as also has "Con" Gleason, another party to the deal.

The Omaha police believe Gleason to be one of the trio of Kansas City sharks who successfully defrauded a real estate firm out of several hundred dollars in that city. Gleason was the prime factor in a big Sarpy county bogus real estate deal turned at South Omaha ten years ago when several hundred victims were bilked for sums ranging from $300 to $500. Then transcripts and deeds were executed and sales made of "skylight" property. Gleason disappeared after that and only made his appearance here again recently when he was arrested and discharged by Judge Baxter for obtaining $50 from C.C. Wiens of Hiawatha, Kansas, Wiens failing to appear.

Jourgensen employed "Blondy" Clare, a local justice of the peace to prosecute Floyd.

From the Omaha World Herald (Omaha, Douglas Co., Nebraska), dated August 18, 1898