The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-09-06
sTEhSLAND IS
TAKEN CAPTIVE
The Chicago Bank Wrecker Is
Arrested at Tangiers,
Morocco.
WOMAN LED TO CAPTURE
Friend Of Woman He Had shabbitJ
Treated Gave First Hint of Bank
er's Whereabouts-Will Re-
turn Peacefully.

Chicago, Sept. 5.-A cablegram to the
Tribune announces that Paul Q. Stems
land. president Of the Milwaukee Az
enue State bank, was captured today
at Tangiers Stensland was arrested
at s o'clock this morning by q tribune
representative and Assistant states
Attorney Olson, of Chicago, in the ENG
dish postofIice. Stensland agreed to re-
turn peaceably. Assistant States At
torney Barbour received a cablegram
from Assistant States Attorney Olson
stating that Stensland was arrested at
Tangiec, Morocco.
Stensland left Gibraltar for the east
ern coast of Africa at 5 o'clock yester-
day afternoon, just one hour and forty
minutes before the representative or the
Tribune and Assistant States Attor-
ney Olson arrived.
Was a Long Chase.
After trailing Stensland from Ameri-
ca to England, thence to Gibraltar, and
thence to Ronda, where he saw q bull
fight. to Bobadella, Granada, Seaville,
and other Spanish towns, Stensland
travelling under the alias Of 2. Olsen, OF
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 t~wenty-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.
. Ctarc1op1 ohoca Morocco not as a.
residence, but because their
is no ~extradition treaty with that u
try.
Sultan Just as Soon Sa! Him.
The sultan at Fee, to whom Mr..
Grummere is going on his first official
mission in two weeks, will 40 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 a nan willing
to go anywhere else.
Stensland was on the German tramp
steamer Oldenburg. The fact that he
thought ne waS Eot followed was shown
by directions ~ 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
mary Stands.
Old Story of Woman scorned.
1t was the old story of a woman
scorned that led to the finding Of
S~tensland's trail. One Of his numerous
friends, who thought she had been
shabby 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. tlnally, on Al
gust 18th, it became certain Stansland
was in Tangier, sEi had been there for
sixteen days.
He fed from Chicago on Sunday,
July -, 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 eXtradition pa
perS.
It is now expected that the fugitive
will make a fight for his freedom. The
states attorney declared, however,
there is no doubt that Stensland will be
DlOuEill DdCh.
Ask State Department to Act.
Governor Deneen directed that eN-
tradition papers be prepared at one
and forwarded 20 Washington.
Assistant States Attorney Barbour
sent the following message to the state
department at Washington: Notify
Minister Grummere, Tangier, to hold
Stensland, wanted for forgery and en-
bezZlement. My assistant, Olson, cables
Nnl,r inp,ra1iotn inctr1ctjorS tn tho
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 who
was travelling just ahead of him. AS
Stensland apparently made no effort to
conceal his trail the following was not
difficult.
The closing of the doors of the Mil
waukee Avenue State bank, which oc-
CURED August 6. probably caused more
anguish, suffering and trouble thai any
similar event in the west in many
years. 1t was followed by several cases
of suicide and a number of people We're
Ac;ven to insanity. Stensland lived a
fast life and spent money recklessly,
~specuIated wildly and in one way and
another made away with about $1,000
900 Of the bank's money before the
crash came.
$4,000 Families Had Deposited Money.
More than $4,000 families had money
deposited in the bank. n the failure
came as a crushing blow to a majority
of them The vast ma lOrjtv n' the