The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-09-07
S!ENSLAND IS
TAKEN CAPTIVE
The Chicago Bank W'ecker Is
Arrested at Tangiers,
Morocco.
WOMAN LEO TO CAPTURE
Friend Of Woman He Had Stability
Treated Gave First Hint of Bank
er's Whereabouts-Will Re-
turn Peacefully.

turn Peacefully.
Chicago, Sept. "a cablegram to the
Tribune announces that Paul o.. stems
land president of the Milwaukee Az
enue State bank, was captured To-Day
at Tangiers. Stensland was arrested
at s o'clock this morning by a tribune
representative and Assistant States
Attorney Olson, of Chicago. in the Eng
lish postofice. Stensland agreed to re-
turn peaceably. Assistant States At
torney Barbour received a cablegrafn
IRON Assistant States Attorney Olson
stating that Stensland was arrested at
Tangier. Morocco.
Srensland left Gibraltar for the east,
ern coast of Africa at S o'clock yester-
day afternoon, just one hour and forty
minutes before the representative OF the
Tribune and Assistant States Attor-
ney Olson arrived.
Was a Long Chase.
After trailing Stensland from Amerl-
ca to England, thence to Gibraltar, and
thence to Ronda, where he saw a bull
lRlI, 70 IoObtUSile1,
! and other Spanish towns, Stensland
travelling under the alias of p. Olsen, or
Norway, his capture was practically
certain. The Tribune correspondent
and Olson left in a private t~orpedoboat
and either came up with their quarry
in twenty-four hours or arrived at the
farthest point ahead of the fugitive.
Grummere, the American minister to
Morocco. was on the watch to receive
instructions from the state department
regarding the capture OF the banker.
StenSland chose Morocco not as q
ermanon residence, but because their
is no extradition treaty with that coun-
try.
Sultan Just as Soon 9ai! Him.
The sultan at Fee. to whom Mr..
Grummere is going m his first official
mission in two weeks. Will do any
thing for President Roosevelt. The
mere matter of throwing a man In Jail
and keeping him there indefinitely is
so small a request that it is granted be-
fore it is asked Two weeks in a Moor
ish prison would make mar willing
to go anywhere else.
Stensland was on the German tramp
steamer O~ldenburg. The fact that he
thought he was lot ollowed was shown
by directions VIC left at a hotel telling
the clerk where to forward his mail
for the next two months. He figured
on spending October at Teneriffe, Ca
nary islands.
Old Story of Woman scorned.
1t was the old story of a woman
scorned that led to the finding of
Stensland's trail. One of his numerous
friends, who thought she had been
shabbily treated, put the Tribune in
possession of the first hint of the fugi-
| .tive's whereabouts Her information
was indefinite, but investigation proved.
its probable accuracy. Finally. ON Au-
gust 18th, it became certain Stansland
a. -..-:- al l,-l 1~,, tlN~,,o E.
sixteen days.
He fed from Chicago on Sunday.
July 10, and went direct to New York.
He sailed Tuesday for Liverpool and
stayed in that town two days. Then
he took a boat for Gibraltar, reaching
there July 81. There he Immediately
took boat for Tangier.
May Make a Fight.
Later advices received at the Office
of the states attorney threw consider
able doubt on the statement that
stensland would return peaceably.
Officials at the office after the receipt
of the cablegram contents, which they
declined to divulge, became suddenly
busy in preparation of eNtradition pa
pers.
1t is now expected that the fugitive
will make a fight for his freedom. h
states attorney declared. however,
there is no doubt that Stensland will be
brought back.
Ask State Department to Act.
Governor Deneen directed that ex-
tradition papers be prepared at once
and forwarded 20 Washington.
Assistant States Attorney Barbour
sent the following message to the state
department at Washington: Notify
Minister Gr,nnmere, Tangier. to hold.
Stensland, wanted for forgery and M
beZzlement. My assistant, Olson, cables
your immediate instructions to the
minister are Imperative"
AT the office of the states attorney
all information regarding the name Of
the woman who indirectly caused the
arrest was refused.
Olson Posed as Son.
1t was announced that Assistant
States Attorney Olson had, since en-
barking on the pursuit of stensland,.
posed as a son of Olson" the name
used by Stensland, declaring he was,
anxious to overtake his father" whoe
was travelling just ahead of him. AS
Stensland apparently made no effort to.
conceal his trail the following was not
difficult.
h closing of the doors of the Mil
waukee Avenue State bank, which oc-
CURED August 6. probably caused more
guls suffering and trouble thar any
similar event in the west in MANY
years. 1t was followed by several cases
of suicide and a humble of people we've
d::-te'a to insanity. Stensiand lived q.
fast life and spent money reclllesslye
speculated wildly and in one way and
another made away with about $1,000
600 of the banks money before the
crash came.
$4,000 Families Had Deposited Money.
More than $4,000 families had money
deposited in the bank. and the failure
came as a crushing blow to a majority
of them. The vast majority Of tho
depositors We're wage earners, and the
money they had in the bank repre-
sented all that they had been able to
save from the earnings of years.
Oyster Bay, N. YIN a letter 70
Charles A. Stillings, public printer at
Washingt n, made public today, Pres
ident Roosevelt wrote that if the
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