Show STOLE NEARLY A MILLION Chicago Real Estate Man Confesses to Long List of Frauds Chlcatro Peter Van Vllsslngen a real estate dealer for years classed among the first of Chicagos prosperous prosper-ous and reputable business men on Monday confessed to having Obtained through forged deeds and notes more than 700000 and a few hours after his arrest on his own urgent appeal to be punished was sentenced tho penitentiary The arrest the Indictment Indict-ment the confession and tho sentence sen-tence wore the work of less than four hours Taken In the midst of business busi-ness from his offlco desk at 172 Wash inton street shortly after the noon hour Van Vltsslnpen a venerable looking man appeared before Ute court and In tears confessed that for from eighteen to twenty years ho had been securing money through the salo of forged documents and though ho had bought hack many of these spurious spuri-ous Instruments without detection at least twentyfive people would lose an aggregate of more than 700000 through tho paper which he has not yet redeemed |