The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-09-27
STENSLAND ARRIVES.
Banker Has Been Returned
FROM Aigiers After a Hot


New York, Sept. 26.-under arrest
by New York detectives, Paul o. stems
land, former president Of the Milwau-
kee Avenue State bank, Chicago, who
stands indicted for neavy embezzle-
ssseiat freifi that institution arrived in
New York yesterday. He was taken
from the steamer Prinz Adelbert, on
which he came from Morocco, to
which country he had fed after the
wreclSing of the bank, and according
to his SON., Theodore %Stensland. he will
plead guilty to several ofSthe charges
brought against him.
Stensland has made a complete con-
~fession, according to Assistant States
Attorney Olsen, of Chicago, who went
to Tangier, Morocco, to take the for
me bank official into custody, and in
his confession he implicated other
prominent Chicago men. Attorney
Olsen declined to name these men.
Theodore Stensland, who CAV out
an official statement for his father, de-
clared that the latter had made no
signed confession, but that he had adj
mitted committing certain o~ffenses
which constitute embezzlement under
the Illinois law.
To some Of the indictments for m
b~ezzlement his father would plead
guilty, he said, and in the case of the
others he would turn states evidence
and implicate all others who should be
indicted in connection with the failure
of the bank.
Stensland made the further state.
ment, according to the son hat If the
shortage in the bank was over $500, 900
the money in excess Of that amount
had been taken by Henry w. Herring,
the former cashier of the bank, who
charges Of stealing yer 81, O00, 900 from
the bank and for forgery.
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
try for freedom down the West African
Moroccan city Of Tangier, from which
place the United States authorities
were permitted to remove him by the
government of Morocco.
There was an affecting meeting be-
tween father and son on board the tug
Catherine Moran, which the prisoner
boarded at quarantine.
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 Mo-
rcccan soldiers.
While father and son were in con-
ference Attorney Olsen was telling of
the capture of Stensland at Tangier
and Of how persistently Stensland had
labored to reach some place where the
arm Of the law was not a menace He
told Of the hurried fight from New
York to Gibraltar, the passage to Tan
gier, Morocco, the refuge den in the
mountains of Spain and then the re-
turn to Gibraltar. There the fleeing
official boarded the German steamer
Canary islands, u which was stopped
by a pursuing steamer before she
reached her destination. The Olden-
burg put into Tangier, where her cap
tain purposely delayed for three days
pending the settlement of the case, of
his passenger Stensland. Then fol-
lowed the arrest Of Stensland in a
street in Tangier and his final decision
to waive extradition rights when he
found that the Moroccan authorities
had agreed to allow his removal.
"Stensland went to Tangier," Mr.. Oh
sen said, because from his experience
as a sailor many years 6 he under
stood that Tangier was not a treaty
port and that he would be perfectly safe
there.
"Stensland confessed to me- the at
torney continued. "He talked freely
about the bank n all it's affairs, and
Implicated several men IN the Wrecking
of the bank. l cannot name the men
he referred to, but their names will
come out at the proper time.
II believe he will do everything pos
s1ble in winding up the affairs of the
institution. With reference to the Elm
wood cemetery stock, Stensland said he
considered it very valuable and that he
hoped to get it very soon from a GER
tain man whose name he gave 1Ie.
This stock has figured somewhat in the