The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-25
STENSLAND BACK, TO ACCUSE.
sAl.s PROMINENT CHICAGO MEN
WILL ne IMPLICATED
m His Narrative OF the Milwaukee Avenue
usuk wreck -BIames Herring Chiefly
-Nfory NJ the Capture-Pasha quite
- ucad, 10 IIOk Money Out OF Him.

RAN; Of which he was president, had been
,ptfc,L and who was arrested at TanGier
,Lroppb the efforts Of james Keeey OF tho
cbicapo Tribune, arrived here yesterday
.fterroon on the Hamburg-American line
-aomship Prinz Adalbert, which sailed
from Gibraltar on September ~.
I, had been minated that here a q
uos.ili,itv that Stensland would fight
~..rtradtion, but he was perfectly willing to
,.,prn to Chicago and face the music. He
ill blend guilty to some OF the charges
.oainst him. in that he permitted the bank
"a reoeive deposits whom he knew that 1t
wss busolvent, but he will deny that he is
a.nonsible for the entire shorta ge-a mat
tsr Of nearly a million.
He VIII tell who got the money, and in
falling his sroy he will implicate persons
Who arc prominent in their way in Chicago.
II was said by Mr.. Kelley. who returned
with S-ensland. that most Of the blame
would be laid on Henry aW. Herring, the
hanks caahier, who Is now In jail.
Stensland will 90 back to Chicago this
afternoon on the Twentieth Century Limited
In charge OF Joseph Kinder, a detective
attached 10 the Office of the States attorney
IN Chicago. After a fortnight on the sea
he slept last night in a cell at police head,
quarters. He was taken on the steamship
at Quarantine and brought OF to the city
instead Of being compelled to 90 to Hoboken.
When he got of the tug at Pier 8. East
River, he looked "a though he would be
viliug 70 sleep anywhere. He was in the
hands Of his friends. he said, and he would
follow the advice of MIR. Kelley and Her
man Olson. Assistant States Attorney,
l. ~ ,,pa o., frtra NTH KOalav ua
asked Detective ~Sergeants James Downing
and John Diefenthaler Of the Central of1oe
10 let him get a cab as he was tired.
shipload Of reporters and others went
down the bay TO help bring him up. When
be climbed over the side OF the Prinz Adal-
bert and let himself down the sea ladder
from the port bow to the deck Of the tug
Catherine Moran the camera men on the
upper works of the boat fred, and then
when he had gone through the formality
Of being arrested and had embraced and
kissed bis son, Theodore, who went down
on the tug, he was led to the after part
Of the upper deck, where like a lamb he
posed for the entire camera brigade, firing
vollevs and at will. Is he stood in the
fading sunlight gazing westward the
shadow Of the Statue Of Liberty fell across
bis face.
Mr.. Kelley said that he had never seen
gamer man than Stensland.
And YOU can bet that he is a fine old
chap despite the mess he il in, said Kelley
when he left Chicago he did not know
that the affairs OF the bank were as bad
AZ they turned out TO be. He intended
going 70 Tangier to remain there until the
thing should blow over, when be would
return.
Did you notice the steamer trunk and
bags that were taken from tho steamer
They all had P. o. Stensland, Chicago, H.
painted on them, and there had been no
attempt At erasure. He was travelling
under the name Of P. Olson, but he did not
remove his name from any of his clothing.
He got his mail as Olson in Tangier. When
w came upon him in Tangier he was in the
British post Office leaving a memorandum Of
his intended change Of address-he was
going to Mogador, a town further inland.
He had written p. Olson, British Post
Once when / looked over his shoulder and
said Hadn't you better make that Stems
land? Mr.. Olson, who was with me added.
And the address ChicagoY
Not a muscle of the old mans face
changed a. he turned his head to see who
had spoken.
NO he replied, and then without q
tremor he calmly wrote 'Mogador.'
Never again will an embezzler go to
Morocco for safety. II il too easy to get a
prisoner ogt of the country. Sid Cador, the
Pasha Of }Tangier' was about the easiest
thing We struck. He couldn't do half
enough for Ms in fact, he would have been
far better pleased had we asked him for the
head Of the man we wanted. You see he
thinksthat the governors Of other countries
have a. much power az he has, and a little
thing like cutting OF a mans head we'll
He was much astonished when he learned
that We dia not want him so have Stensland
nogged in order to force him to give up some
Twelve thousand pesetas he had on deposit
in the TanRier branch of a Paris bank. But
bis soldiers were at our disposal, and we
had them as guards. i
One night xix Of the army that were
m glari a. the house where he had the
prisoner confined went on a strike.
They sent a corporal over to the hotel
10 tell US that II inc payNof the men was
not incrc5 sci one peseta the day, and the
shifts made three ot eight hours each in
stead ~ Two Of twelve they would go on
the Job
you woll1 not stand for il, said Stensland
when he heard of the demand. When the
hlmor Of the situation came to him he in
SISTED That the mems pay be raised.
VT htFIhN 1HCllne1 10 say now ne naO |
sscetalue1 the whereabouts Of Stensland.
he declared that but one person in the world
besides himself had known IL and that
when hs bad asked the States Attorney
10 60 along with him to get the man he
ad NOT tell him where they were going
until they had reached Paris.
Stersiand had made no signed con-
ISslon. q was declared.
Herring is The archdevil in this business"
sald htel'y. 1T will be shown that he
TOOK the greater part Of the money. For
seVery penny that Stensland got from the
nank there Is something left to show where
" went. For the hundreds Of thousands
that irung and the others got there is
npothing The money they got went for
nforseracug, wine and women. When
Htensa0d went away he took with him
S,1ine hiuwO francs, but il was his money.
ne had earned q 900 or 5000 in commits
SONS ON real estate deals the rest was his
NalarH Us president Of a cemetery company
ana I'M" surrender value Of a life insurance
polcV When no was in New York just
before No sailed for Gibraltar on the steam
mp Pavpnla he had to his credit in a trust
COMPANY here $500 600 in cash. He did not
.aAea r"u' II Il. Herring il was who started
me i~orE"rIes that swamped the bank. He
Ial Nt'n-land IN his power, and when he
urrW large amounts and s~quandered them
~ S'"0-land remonstrated he cursed the
90 man and drew more money"
sten-ldnd has now on deposit in Tangier
snmethl0g like $4,000. II will probably