Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-09-06
Caught HIM
sTENsLANp, PRESIDENT OF A
LOOTED CHICAGO BANK. CAP
TURED IN TANGIER.
BETRAYED BY A WOMAN
Charged That He Mistreated Her, and
She Carried the Story to a News
paper office, and StenoIand
Was Followed.

Tangier.-Mr. Paul o. Stensland,
land, president of the looted Milwau-
kee Avenue state bank of Chicago, is
no longer a fugitive. The man who is
alleged to have looted his institution
of nearly $4,000, 900, and who baffed
the detectives of the old and new
worlds could not escape the vengeance
of oma scorned.
At eight o'clock Monday morning
Assistant States Attorney Olson of
Chicago, accompanied by a Chicago
Tribune reporter, placed his hand on
Stensland's shoulder in the Tangier
post office, and the long pursuit was
over. Stensland, cool and seemingly
half glad that the suspense was ended,
turned a face lined from worry and
dissipation to his captors and said:
Eyes, I'm Stensland. l know they
want me back there, and I'll go with
out further formalities."
Stensland reached Tangier, July 28,
by the steamer Gibel, from Gibraltar,
travelling as P. Olson, of Norway.
Shortly afterward there arrived in
Tangier another Olson, but whose
name was bona fide, and whose arrival
meant the downfall Of the handsomely
dressed, dissipated-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 StensIand Was Tracked.
This second Olson was the assistant
states attorney of Chicago, who had
been placed on Stensland's trail by a
woman whom the fugitive banker is
alleged to have mistreated in Chicago,
and who CARRIED her story to a 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.
Stensland did not seem to be suspi-
cious at first. He mad no effort to
ove his tracks, beyond the assum.
ton of an alias. He rather avoided
the big hotels, but otherwise he made
himself prominent. He was a spend
err" He lived at a terrible gait, and
his lame became a by-word in music
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 war a son of the
"Olson" who had preceded him.
Charters Torpedo Boat.
81 think he has gone to Gibraltar"
someone told Olson. So the Chicago
an chartered a 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 Tangier. Olson
followed him. Stensland, still travel
ing as Olson, resumed his fast life.
The second Olson watched and bided
his time. He made the rounds of the
cafes and dancing halls, sitting
unostentatiously where he could keep
perpetual vigil on his quarry-fOr the
Olson of Norway was an inveterate
follower of the danseuses and cafe
habitues.
Day and night Olson watched Olson.
Where one wound his way through
the moonlight streets to scenes of rev.
elry, the other followed. AS though
giving way under the constant but. as
yet, hardly recognized surveillance,
the handsomely dressed stranger rev.
eled in wine and song, spending his
money like water and arousing the
jealousy of the Arab chiefs who were
smiled upon by the feminine frequent
ers Of the CAFE Francois, the Cafe I'm
perial and the Cafe Turesque.
At last the real Olson was sure. He
had found his man. When the two
met face to face in the post office, o.
son placed Stensland under arrest.