Evening star., 1906-09-03
STENSLAND CAUGHT
IN FAR-OFF TANG|ER
Fugitive Chicago Bank De-
faulter Under Arrest.
THE TRAIL FROM AMERICA
Found Through Old Story Of Woman
Scorned.
TRAVELLED AS P. OLSEN, NORWAY
Agreed to Return Peaceably to This
Countryside, 900 Found in
Moroccan Bank.
THE TRAIL FROM AMERICA
Found Through Old Story of Woman
Scorned.
AS P. OLSEN, NORWAY

The arrest of the fugitive Chicago
bank defaulter, Stensland, at Tan
gier, Morocco, this morning is an
other feather in the cap of the news
paper men for ability in ferreting
crime and running down offenders
OF the law.
A reporter of the Chicago Tri-
bune appears to have figured in the
final capture of the man who wreck
ed the Milwaukee Avenue Bank in
Chicago in thoroughly up-to-date
extravagant methods. Using clue
in the plant of a woman scorned
by the defaulter, the reporter started
on a chase which took him through
Spain and finally brought him face
to face with the much-wanted man
at Tangier.
Stensland agreed to return peace
ally to this country. About $I2, 900
was found to his credit in the bank
at Tangier.
CHICAGO. September "a special cable
gram to the Tribune announces that Paul
o. Stensland. president of the Milwaukee
Avenue State Bank, was captured today in
Tangier.
Stensland. according to a cable dispatch
to the Tribune from Gibraltar published
this morning. left Gibraltar for the eastern
coast Of Africa at o'clock yesterday aft
ernoon. just an hour and forty min
utes before the representative of the Trb-
une and Assistant States Attorney Harry
Olsen arrived after trailing him from
America to England. thence to Gibraltar.
to Tangier, Morocco, back to Gibraltar, and
thence to Ronda. where he saw bull
fight to Bobadella. Granada, Seville and
other Spanish towns.
He was travelling under the alias of P.
Olsen OF Norway.
The paper says that Mr.. Gummere, Amer
lean minister to Morocco. was on the out
look and the moment he received instruc-
tions from the State Department he would
send a detail of the sultan's soldiers to
take Stensland.
Sultan a Law Unto Himself.
Stensland, the dispatch says, chose Mo-
rocco as a place of permanent residence
because there is no extradition treaty with
that country. The sultan at Fee. however,
will do anything for President Roosevelt.
The matter of throwing a man in Jail and
keeping him there indefinitely is so small
a request that ii is granted before it Is
asked.
.'If Stensland decides to return peace
ably" the Tribune dispatch continues,
nd of ha
United States warships that will be in
Gibraltar in ten days probably will cross to
Tangier. the fugitive will be thrown on
board and headed for America.
I'VE discovered that he had $4,000 in
bank in Tangier. Steps have been taken
by Assistant States Attorney Olsen to tie
this money up.
Arrested This Morning.
Stensland was arrested at o'clock this
morning by the Tribune representative and
Assistant States Attorney Harry Olsen Of
Chicago in the English post Office. Stems
land agreed to return peaceably. Assistant
States Attorney Barbour received a cable
gram today that Paul o. Stensland had
been arrested in Tangier. Morocco.
1T the old story of a woman
scorned that led to the finding of Stems
lands trail. One of his numerous friends
who thought she had been shabbily treated.
put the Tribune In possession of the first
hint to the fugltlVe'S whereabouts. Her
Information was Indefinite, but investiga-
ton proved it's probable accuracy. Finally
on August 13. it became certain that he
was in Tangier. and had been for sixteen
days. He fed from Chicago on Sunday.
July u. went direct to New York and took
the White Star boat, sailing on Tuesday
for Liverpool. and stayed In that town two
days. Stensland then took the p. & o.
boat for Gibraltar. There he took the boat
for Tangier."
Story of the Chase.
A representative Of the Tribune was sent
20 States Attorney Healey. who at that
time was in the east. The request was
made that a representative of the states
attorneys office be permitted to accompany
the Tribune representative on the quest for
the fugitive. Mr. Healey agreed and sent
Assistant States Attorney Olson. 1t was
ascertained that Stensland had fled from
Chicago on July IL. gone directly to New
York and sailed on a steamer of the White
Star line for Liverpool. He remained In
that city for two days and then took a
steamer for Gibraltar, which he reached
July 81. From there he took boat for
Tangier.
The Tribune correspondent and Assistant
States Attorney Olson were hot on his trail
and arrived In Tangier about one hour after
he left il for a trip to the east cost OF
Africa 1t was ascertaned that he had
deposited $4,000 in bank of Tangier. and
believing that he would soon return the
TWO men decided TO await him there. a
dispatch printed in the regular edition OF
the Tribune this morning declared that the
arrest of Stensland would be only mat
ter of hours. and four hours later spe-
eial edition was issued declaring that the
fugitive had been taken into custody. Dur
Ing the period intervening between his flight
and his arrest Stensland has been going
under the name of p. Olsen OF Norway.
1t was learned before his arrest that he
had figured spending the month of Oc-
tober in the Canary Islands and from there
: Eoing to London. as he had ordered all his