The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1906-09-29
STENSLAND BOARDS
train FOR Chicago
FUGITIVE BANKER WAVES Ex.
TRADITION RIGHTS AND WILL
PLEAD GUILTY..
AGAIN DECLARES ALL
HE GOT WAS 100000
Tells New York Police Inspector Her
ing Took Advantage Of Him-ls
Measured by BertiIlon System
and Has Photograph Taken.

New York, Sept. 26.-Paul o. Stems
land, the fugitive president of the Mil
waukee Avenue State bank of Chi
cago, who was taken off the Prinz
Adalbert at quarantine at $3.50 o'clock
Monday evening and passed the night
in cell at the Mulberry street de-
tective headquarters, started for Chi
cago in charge of Assistant States
Attorney Harry Olson and other Chi
cago officials, on the Twentieth Cen
fury limited at $3.50 o'clock Tuesday
plead guilty and turn states evidence.
He promises to tell enough to convict
the men who were his conspirators or
who worked with their knowledge of
his guilt to stack up forgery on for
gerry on the foundation of wrongdoing
which he had built. 81. .
T. Passes Restless Night.
Stensland passed a restless night
at police headquarters. He slept lit
tie during the night and Tuesday
morning plainly showed the effects of
the terrible ordeal he has passed
through since his arrest in Tangier.
Young Stensland stayed with his
father until a late hour and then went
to his hotel.
Stensland was lined up at police
headquarters with score of alleged
pickpockets and others who had been
arrested during the night and was
subjected to the customary examina-
ton by the detective sergeants. This
ordeal over, he was removed to the
Identification bureau, where he was
measured in accordance with the Ber-
! :tillon system, and later his photo.
graph was taken to be placed on file
| at police headquarters.
Son an EARLY Caller.
An early visitor to Stensland's cell
was his son, Theodore. The two con-
versed together until the summons
came for the father to appear before
the central office men. He tottered
rather than walked from his cell to
the various offices and leaned heavily
upon the supporting arm of his son.
Stensland during the night told one
! of the officers who were watching
him that he wanted to go back to
Chicago and would have done SO had
not he been arrested in Tangier
Morocco.
Il want to straighten out matters y
said .Stensland. There is good deal
behind this case, and l want to show
the public that l am not the black
sheep have been painted"
! Again Biames Herring.
! Stensland made voluntary state
ment to Police Inspector Mclaughlin
Tuesday. Trembling with emotion
and with tears falling down his
cheeks, the ex-bank president said:
Il made some bad investments and
they did not act as quickly as
thought they would. They were not
paying. The man under me--the
cashier, / mean-took advantage OF
! the situation, and he got more than 1
All got was 100000, but I don't
know what the other man got. The
money! went away with was a few
thousand dollars that made in a real
estate speculation last summer.
had been always in hope of paying the
money back, but suppose all is lost
am suffering from asthma. l want
to get back to Chicago just as quickly
as possible"
orensland, who had recovered some
what from his prostration, was able
to walk with detectives from police
headquarters to Third avenue. where
street car was boarded on the wa,
to the criminal court building.
Valves ExtraditIon Rights.
The extradition conference at thu
district attorneys Office lasted unit
after the noon hour. Assistant States
Attorney Olson of, Chicago, WHIT
brought Stensland to this countr!
from Tangier, was present until tn
formalities were completed. The prin
cipal act Of Stensland was that o
signing waiver of his extraditiol
rights and. his signature of a docu
ment which set forth that his remova
from New York state was not unde
duress.' Just before Stensland lef
the criminal court building he con
scented to sit for newspaper photo
grapher and he was photographed ii
two different positions. He was NOR
composed by this time and when tn
sitting was over he dryly remarked II
the photoerapher: