Vlissingen, Peter Van

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On November 17, 1908, Peter Van Vlissingen, who was a Chicago real estate dealer, confessed to 20 years of fraud and was sentenced to from 1 to 14 years.

He traced mortgage signatures through a glass desk top with an electric light underneath and amassed more than $700,000 in forged deeds and notes.