Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-09-04
WAS At GIBRALTAR.
cabIesram Stated stensIand Had De.
parted FOR Africa.

Chicago. Sept. "A cable dispatch
TO the Tribune from Gibraltar says:
Paul Stensland. president and wreck.
er OF the Milwaukee Avehue State
bank. left Gibraltar for the eastern
coast OF Africa at o'clock Saturday
afternoon. Just one hour and forty
minutes before the representative OF
the Tribune and Assistant States Al.
torney Harry Olson arrived. after trail.
ing him from Amer neo England,
thence to Gibraltar, to pgier. Mo
rocco, back to Gibraltat R.d thence to
Ronda. where he saw a bull fight. TO
Bobadella. Granada. Seville and other
Spanish towns.
Stensland is travelling under the
alias OF z. Olson Of Norway. Either
Stansland is absolutely sure that he
is not being followed or has become
extremely careless. for he Is leaving
a wide trail.
His capture practically is now as.
sured. We leave to-day on a private
torpedo boat. and will either come up
with the quarry in twenty.four hours
or arrive at the furtherest point ahead
OF the fugitive.
Grummere. the American minister
/ to Morocco, Is on watch. and the mo-
ment he receives instructions from
the state department he will send a
detail Of the sultan's soldiers to make
captive OF the banker.
Stensland chose Morocco as a per.
manent residence betcause there is
no extradltion treaty with that coun.
try. The sultan at Fee. however. TO
whom Mr.. Grummere is going on his
first official mission In two weeks.
will do everything for President Roose.
welt. The mere matter OF throwing a
man in jail and keeping him there In.
definitely Is so small a request that
II Is granted before II Is asked. Two
weeks In Moorish prison would make
a man willing TO go anywhere else.
II Stensland decides 10 return peace
ably. well and good. Otherwise one
Of the United States warships that will
be brought 10 Gibraltar in ten days
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fugitive will be trown on board and
headed for Chicago.
The bank wrecker Is on the German
tramp steamer Oldenburg The fact
that he thinks he is not being follow
ed Is shown by the directions he left
at the Grand hotel telling the clerk
where to forward his mail for the next
two months. He figured on spending
the month of October at Tenteriffe IN
the Canary islands. lie has some cor
respondent or friend In London. fol
he ordered his mail sent 10 the Metro
pole hotel.
II he should elude capture for th'
, next few days he will come TO a sud
den halt In his travels because OF 1
lack OF money. We discovered tina
he had $4,000 In a bank In Tangier
Steps have been taken by Assistan
States Attorney Olson 10 tie thi
moneyup. and II possible restore II Il
the swindled depositors.
II was the old story OF woman
scorned that led 10 the finding o
Stensland's trail. One OF his numer
Gus friends who thought she had beef
stability treated put the Tribune Il
possession OF the first hint as to tn
fugitive's whereabouts. Her informa
tion was indefinite.' but investigation
proved It's probable accuracy. Fina
Is. on Aug. 10. Il became certain tina
he was in Tangier. and had been 10
sixteen days lie fled from Chicag
} Sunday, July L.. went direct TO Ne,
: York and took the White Star boat
: sailing GU Tuesday for Liverpool an
stayed in that town two days. Stems
} land then took a boat. reaching Gil
raltar July q. There he immediatel
took theb cat for Tangier.