The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-09-07
CAUGHT HIM
STENSLAND, PRESIDENT OF A
LOOTED CHICAGO BANK, CAP
TuRED IN TANGlER.
Be RAYED BY A WOMAN
Charged That He Mstreated Her, and
She Carried the Story to News
paper Office, and stensand
Was Followed.

/ Tangier.-Mr Paul o. Stensland,
/ land. president Of the looted Milwau-
kcc Avenue state bank of Chicago, is
no longer fugitive. The man who is
alleged to have looted his institution
OF nearly s. 100000, and who balhcd
the detectives of the old and new
worlds could not escape the vengeance
Of woman Ecorncd.
At eight o'clock Monday morning
Assistant States Attorney Olson of
Chicago, accompanied by a Chicago
Tribune reporter, placed his hand on
Stcnsland's shoulder In the Tangier
post office, and the long pursuit was
over. Stcnsland, cool and seemingly
half glad that the suspense was ended.
turned n face lined from worry and
dissipation to his Capiors and said
yes, I'm St"nsland. ! know they
want me back there. and I'll so with
out further formaIitics.'
Stcnsland reached TanGicr, July 90.
by the steamer Gibcl, from Gibraltar,
travelling as p. Olson, of Norway.
Shortly afterward there arrived in
TanGier another Olson, but whose
name was iona fida. and whose arrival
meant the downfall Of the handsomely
dressed, dsspatcd looking stranger
who climbed the hill on which the
quaint Moorish town Is built. entered
the city gate and hurried to the Grand
Hotel Oriental
How Stenslard Was Tracked.
This second Olson was tho assistant
states attorney OF Chicago, who had
been placed on Stcnslnnd's trail by
woman whom the fugitive banker is
alleged to have mstrcatod In Chicago
and who CARRIED her story to n news.
paper office. The prosecutor had fol.
lowed the man through England and
through Spain, always an hour or two
too late, but sure of victory In the
end.
S."ns!and did not seem TO be suspi.
clous at first. He mad no effort to
cover his tracks, beyond the assum.
ton OF an alias He rather avoided
the big hotels, but otherwise he made
himself prominent lie was a spend
er." He lived at a terrible gait. and
lliH isAIllt bftdlllt d ny Nbli III lllNblt
halls and dance resorts.
Again Olson was cheated however.
Hardly had he reached Tangier when
the man he was tracking departed for
Gibraltar. The prosecutor registered
at the Grand Hotel Oriental and told
the proprietor he was son OF the
Olson" who had preceded him.
Charters Torpedo Boat.
Il think he has gone to Gibraltar"
someone told Olson SO the Chicago
an chartered tOrpedo.bOat which had
not yet been turned over to the British
navy and sped to Gibraltar
He arrived two hours too late. His
quarry had doubled on his water track
and had turned back to Tangicr. Olson
followed him. Stensland. still travel
ing as Olson. resumed his fast life
The second Olson watched and blded
his time He made the rounds Of tho
cafes and dancing halls, sitting
unostcntatiously where he could keep
perpetual vigil on his quarry--for the
Olson OF Norway was an inyotorate
follower OF the danscuscs and cafe
habltues
Day and night Olson watched Olson.
Where one wound his way through
the moonlight streets to scenes of rev.
ery, the other followed As though
giving way under the constant Hut. ms
yet. hardly recognized surveillance,
the handsomely dressed stranger rev
elcd in wine and song spending his
money like water and arouaiur the
jealousy CT the Arab chiefs who were
smiled upon by the feminine frc1ucnt-
ers Of the Cafe Francois, the Cafe I'm
peral and the Cafe Turcsque
At last the real Olson was sure lie
had found his man. When the two
met face to face in the post office. Oh
son placed stensland under arrest.