Page 50 - Hotel Tunnel's 100 Years of History

As a result of this royal resolution, the Kammarkollegium issued a letter to the governor of Malmo on June 20th of the following year in the matter and on August 15th of the same year, the magistrate received an order from the governor to take closer knowledge of the disposition of the Ulfeldt properties during the aforementioned period. The investiga- tion conducted by the magistrate also took place that year under Major Beck's supervision, but the outcome is unknown and does not appear in the records of that time. After Suell's acquisition of the Generalsgarden in 1729, this property began to be developed as a general merchant's garden, which had been confiscated in 1658. This particularly occur- red after the governor Cronman moved out of the property in the fall
of 1733. The new owner of the former Fechtell garden on Adelgatan, merchant Frans Suell, was born in Groems, now Gromitz in Holstein. He came to Lybeck as a young man and gained citizenship as a merchant. In his foreign trade, he was also in contact with the merchant Ernst Hind- rich Stein in Malmo, who was born at the estate of Molsam in Mecklen- burg in 1666 and was the son of the merchant Henrich Stein and Anna Law in Lybeck. He came to Malmo in the 1680s and opened trade there in 1693.
The connection with the Stein trading house, which had its offices and housing in property number 354, the south-west part of number III,
in block number 43 of the Svanen on the corner of Kansli- and Kyrko- gatan, continued even after Stein's death on April 7, 1709, after which the business was run by Stein's widow Catharina Pedersdotter Tinchell. After her death on September 12, 1711, Stein's estate ended up in an un- pleasant affair. During his lifetime, Stein had gone as a guarantor for the academic admiral master in Lund, Erik Borckman, and when he fell into arrears, at the request of the academic authorities, the Stein estate was sealed and impounded by the Malmo magistracy. Interested parties in the estate were, among others, several trading houses in Hamburg and Lübeck, and when they learned of the impoundment, they became wor- ried about their claims and sent their representatives to Malmo. Thus, the traders Gotthard Hacks, Lorentz Munter and Frans Suell, in a letter dated September 23, 1711 to the magistracy, expressed their concern that the estate and its creditors would suffer great losses if certain goods, such as the malt that was daily declining in price, and the merchandise that was not "long-lasting," were not immediately sold, requesting that the estate's merchandise store be opened for trade under proper control and sealing of the incoming funds and according to an inventory of the goods in question. In connection with this, the guardians and admi- nistrators of the Stein estate, the trader Petter Coldewey and Seboldt Herman Simson, submitted to the magistracy a letter dated September
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