Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-25
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Others
Prominent Men Also Said
to Be Guilty
No Attempt Made to Prevent Prisoner
From Being Taken Back Upon His
Arrival in New
York
BY Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Sept 24-Under arrest
by New York detectives, Paul o. STEMS
land. former president of the Milwau-
kee Avenue State bank of Chicago. who
stands indicted for heavy embezzIe-
ments from that institution, arrived in
New York tonight.
He was taken from the steamer Prinz
Adelbert, on which he came from Mo-
rocco, to which country he had fled
after the wrecking of the bank, and ac-
cording to his son Theodore Stensland
he will plead guilty to several of the
charges brought against him.
Stensand has made complete con-
fession, according to Assistant States
Attorney Olsen of Chicago, who went
to Tangier, Morocco, to take the former
bank official into custody, and in his
confession he implicated ether promi-
nent Chicago men. Attorney Olsen de-
clined to name these men.
Theodore Stensland, who gave out ar
official statement for his father, de-
signed confession, but that he had adj
mitted committing certain offenses
which constitute embezzlement under
the Illinois laws. -..f
To some of the indictments for en-
bezzlement his father would plead
guilty, he said, and in the case of the
others he would turn states evidence
and impicate all others who should be
indicted in connection with the failure
of the bank.
Stensland made the further statement,
according to the son, that If the short
age in the bank was over 100000 the
money in excess of that amount had
been taken by Henry w. Herring, the
former cashier of the bank, who was
Jointly indicted with Stensland on
charges of stealing over $1,0OO,0OO from
the bank and for forgery.
Banker Physically Weak
Stensland arrived in New York weak
physically and showing much evidence
of the strain which has attended his
extraordinary flight through many
countries, his desperate but Intellectual
trip for freedom down the West African
coast and his final capture in the Mo-
roccan city of Tangier, from which
place the United States authorities were
permitted to remove him by the gov
ernment of Morocco There was an
affecting meeting between father and
son on board the tug Catherine Moran,
which the prisoner boarded at quaran-
tine.
Stensland denies the report that he
tried to commit suicide while in Mo-
rocco. He says that a sudden fainting
spell there was interpreted as an at
tempt at self destruction by the Moroc-
can soldiers.
Stensland was removed to police
headquarters tonight and it was
planned to keep him there until tomor-
row. when he will be removed to the
district attorneys office and later for
mally turned over to the Chicago au-
thorties and taken to Chicago
When the Prinz Adelbert arrived at
quarantine the decks of the liner were
lined with passengers, among them
being States Attorney Olsen and James
Keeley, managing editor of the Chicago
Tribune, who went to Tangier with the
states attorney to bring Stensland back
to America.
No little excitement attended the de-
parture of Stensland with States Attor-
ney Olsen and Mr.. Kelley from the
steamer, a step which they were per-
mitted to take at quarantine by special
permission from the authorities.
The baggage of the three men was
transferred at the same time and 1t
was noticed that the trunks of the in
dicted banker all bore the full name
of Stensland. Stensland was pale and
seemed very weak as he passed slow
ly from the steamer to the tug and
from the cabin.
Father and Son Meet
He was formally placed under ar
rest by the New York detectives and
here also, after a few moments, he re-
ceived his son. Both father and son
were completely overcome and made
no effort to restrain themselves. The
elder man seemed quite unable tol
talk and when he did so 1t was i'm tones
so low that he could scarcely be heard.
While father and son We're i'm con-
ference, Attorney Olsen was telling of
the capture of Stensand at Tangier
and of how persistently Stensland had
labored to reach some place where
the arm of the law was no longer a
menace.
He told of the hurried flight from
New York to Gibraltar, the passage
to Tanger, Morocco, the refuge den
i'm the mountains of Spain and then
the return to Gibraltar. There the
fleeing official boarded the German
steamer Oldenberg. which was bound
for the Canary Islands, but which was
stopped by a pursuing steamer before
she reached her destination.
The Gutenberg put into Tangier, |
where her captain purpOSely DELAYED |