Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-09-13
S!ENSLAND IS
TAKEN CAPTIVE
The Chicago Bank W,ecker Is
Arrested at Tangiers,
Morocco.
WOMAN LED 10 CAPTURE
Friend Of Woman He Had Shabbiiy
Treated Gave First Hin. of Bank
er's Whcreabouts-Nili Re-
turn Peacefully.

Chicago, Sept. 5.-A caAlegram to the
Tribune announces hat Paul O.. Stems
land. president of the Milwaukee Av-
enue state bank. was captured today
Mt Tangicrs. Strnslaud was arrested
at s O'Clock this morning by II Tribune
representative and Assistant States
Attorney Olson. of Chicago, in the Eng
fish postotice. Stensiand agreed to re-
turn peacefully. Assistant States At
torney barbour received II cablegram
from Assistant States Attorney Olson
stating that Stenslamd WAS arrested at
'rangiec. Morocco.
Stensland left Gibraltar for the east,
orn coast OF Africa at b o'clock yester-
day afternoon. just one hour and forty
minutes before the representative of The
Tribune and Assistant States Attor-
ney Olson arrived.
Was a Long Chase.
After trailing Stensland from Ameri-
ca to England. thence to Gibraltar. and
thence to Ronha, where he saw II bull
fight. to Bobadella. Granada. Seaville.
and other Spanish towns, Stensland
travelling under the alias OF +. Oxen. OF
Norway. his capture was practically
certain. The Tribune correspondent
and Olson left In a private torpedoboat
and either came up with their quarry
in twenty-four hours or arrived at the
farthest point ahead of the fugitive.
Grummere. the American minister to
Morocco, was on the watch to receive
instructions from the state department
regarding the capture of the banker.
Stensland chose Morocco not as u
n.,, -, SAT cactjA,nn ltt nns,u tIntr
is no eXtradition treaty with that coun-i
try.
Sultan Just as Soon 1el! Him.
The sultan at Fee. to whom Mr.
Grummere is going on his first official
mission In two weeks. will do my
thing for President Roosevelt. The
mere matter of throwing IL man In Jail
and keeping him there indefinitely Is
so small u request that II is granted be-
fore 1t is asked. Two weeks In II Moor
ish prison would make a man willing
to go anywhere else.
Stensland was on the German tramp
steamer O~ldcnburg. The fact that he
thought he VIZ lot followed was shown
by directions W left at Il hotel telling
the clerk where to forward his mail
for the next two months. He figured
on spending October ut Teneriffe, Ca
nary islands.
Old Story of Woman Soornsd.
1t was he old story of n woman
scorned thai led to the finding of
S,cnsland's trail. one of his numerous
friends. who thought she had been
stability treated, put the Tribune in
possession of the first hint of the fugi-
tive's whereabouts. Her information
WAS Indefinite. but investigation proved
its probable accuracy. Finally, on Au-.
gust 18th. 1T became certain Stansland
was in Tangier, ard had been there for
sixteen days.
He He'd from Chicago on Sunday,
July -. and went direct to New York.
He sailed Tuesday for Liverpool and
stayed in that town two days. Then
he took a boat for Gibraltar. reaching
there July z. There he Immediately
took boat for Tangier.
May Make a Fight.
Later advices received at the office
of the states attorney threw consider
able doubt on the statement that
S%fensland would return peaceably.
Officials at the Office after the receipt
of the cablegram contents. which they
decIned to divulge, became suddenly
busy In preparation of eXtradition pa
pers.
1t Is now expected that the fugitive
will make a fishi for his freedom. The
states attorney declared. however,,
there is no doubt that Stensland will be
brought back.
Ask State Department to Act.
Governor Deneen directed that ex-
tradition papers be prepared at once
and forwarded 20 Washington.
Assistant States Attorney Barbour
sent the following message to the state
department at Washington: Notify
Minister Gruinmcre. Tangier, TO hold
StcnslaIld, wanted for forgery and en-
beZzlement. My assistant. Olson. cables
your Immediate Instructions TO the
minister are Imperative"
AT the Office of the states attorney
all Information regarding the name OF
the woman who indirectly caused tho
arrest was refused.
Olson Posed as Son.
1t was announced that Assistant
states Attorney olson had. since en-
barking on the pursuit of Stenslind.,
posed as n son Of OLSON" the name
used by Stensland. declaring he was
anxious to overtako his father who
was travelling just ahead of him. As
Stensland apparently made no effort to
conceal his trail the following was not
difficult.
The closing of the doors of the Mil
waukec Avcnu State bank, which oc-
CURED August 6. probably caused more
anguish, suffering and trouble than any
similar event in the west In many
years. 1t was ollowcd by several cases
OF suicide and a lumber of people were
a".rec. to insanity. Stensland lived a
idSt me anu spent money IecklcSSty.
speculated wildly and in one way and
another made away with about 81, OOO,-
600 OF the banks money before the
crash came.
$4,000 Families Had Deposited Money.
More than 22.000 families had money
deposited in the bank. and the failure
came as a crushing blow to a majority
of them. The vast majority of the
depositors were wage earners. and the
money they had in the bank repre-
scented all that they had been able to
save from the earnings of years.
Oyster Bay. NJ. YIN n letter to
Charles y. Stillings. public printer at
WhShingt n, made public today, Pres
ideCt Roosevelt Wrnin that IL tho