The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-05
SULTAN WILL NOT
SHIELD SIENSLAND
Moroccan Officials Will Let
Americans Bring the Banker
n Back Home. -.
Prisoner a Prey to Remorse-
Aged Arab Guard Proves
...,.. "a Comforter.

Washington, Sept. 5.-The Moorish
authorities will interpose no objection
to the removal to America of Paul O..
Stensland, president Of the Milwaukee
Avenue bank Of Chicago. A dispatch to
this effect has been received at the state
department from Minister Gummere at
Tangier, dated today. The dispatch
added that Stensland is a prisoner in
the American legation there.
Special to The Journal.
Chicago, Sept. 5.-The Chicago Tri-
bune g staff correspondent last night ca
bled as follows from Tangier:
But for an error Of the state depart
ment at Washington In sending instruc-
to which. he did not have the key, Paul
O. Stensland tonight would be a pris--
oner in Kaibw, a rather superior sort Of
jail in the Moorish citadel. AS it is,
he is still confined on the top floor Of
the Bristol hotel, guarded by represen-
tative Of the Ameri can legation and
six soldiers Of the sultan.
instructions will arrive. Then the
banker must leave his pleasant suite Of
rooms and 20 to cell.
For humane reasons he will not be
locked up in the common prison. This
is a perfectly awful place, dark and
filthy, with air as foul as the black hole
of Calcutta. How the Moors manage
to live in it is a. mystery. One week s
confinement would kill a white man.
The he PROCESS Of Incarceration will Re
preseut the ns the sssr @
to Kador Belgazi, the Basha ruler Of
Tangier. He will express great pleas
ure in being able to oblige, and into Jail
the arrested fugitive will 90.
Pinkerton Men Late.
P. G. Cavaroc, assistant superintend-
emit Of the Pinkertons, arrived. here
from Chicago last night to find himself
yesterday and before he was in town an
hour, heard that the quarry had been
Cavaroc is acting for the depositors'
association Of the Milwaukee Avenue
bank 4.esss.., -, -<r... : . 4
stens1and was broken down man to-
day. Remorse was his constant COM
panion,. and his only bright moments
by permission, took lunch WITT him. All
last night he wept and at times his
paroxxysms Of tears SO alarmed the
guards they were on the point of call
ing a physician. Stensland also suf-
fered severe physical pain.
Arab Tells Prisoner to Pray.
The captain Of his guards, a distip-
guished looking, white bearded Arab,
shortly after daybreak today found that
Stensland, who had tossed for hours in
bed, had risen and was sitting in a
chair, abandoned utterly to grief. He
placed his hand on the prisoners shout
der, then when Stensland looked up the
son Of the Moslem faith dropped on his
knees and his right hand pointed to
heaven. Then he bowed his head cour-
teous!y and in. pantomime gravely sug-
geested to his prisoner that he find relief
above.
"And," said stensland in telling the
story later, while wan smile fitted
across his haggard and worn counte-
nance, "it was not bad idea.''
Planned Trip to Russia.
Russia was the ultimate goal Of the
fugitive, He so confessed today.
Stensland said he thought we might
think his intention insane, but that was
5sTs Was va enough %ss o ls aad 1 sifEsa
there 50 that a stranger might be un-
but the real fact probably is It
was the longing Of the wandering son
for an abiding place as near as posi-
BILE to his fatherland.
His life of exile was hell on earth,
according to Stensland. The very act
OF signing. false name was torture,
and once the act put him in great dan
ger. When he left Tangier for Spain he
took a check-book on the Anglo Egyp-
tian. bank at Gibraltar. While there he
needed money. He went to the bank
and filed in check for 500 pesetas and
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