The Cairo bulletin., 1906-09-18
STENSLANO PLACED
HIS HOPES IN
AN AUTO
SUNK FORTUNE IN BACKING A
NEW KIND OF FREAK
MACHINE.
PAID FOR AFFECTIONS
Of Another's Wife With a Hundred
Dollar Check Evey Month--Man
Got the Money the Bank
Got Stuck.


Chicago Sept, 17.-Bank Pre- iden
Paul o. Stensland. in his Stell Bal
company, rivaled the famous Keele!
a money hopper for the credulous.
mysterious automobile, according to
machinist who worked at the plant o
he Steel Ball company, constituted it,
entire output.
This automobile Is estimated IL
have cost $lS2,500
II takes rank as the nest expensive
automobile in the world,
/ The automob lie had for it's mystery
part a device by which the machinJ
was 20 be oiled automatically for ar
indefinite pe,iod regardless of tn
fight of time or the caprices of the
Standard oil company All that the
prospective owner had to do was t.
buy the machine.
Automatically it did all the rest in
cluding he payment Of Evan ton fine
for exceeding the speed limit
Orders came In for the new ma
ehine. None of the finished product
had appeared. Letters were sent out
saying that the machine would soon
be completed
I'VE have more orders on hand thai.
we can fill, but will try TO get your
machine 10 you shortly" is said to
have been the eeply to people who
wanted to get in on the ground hooI
Of the latest invention in fast-hying
devices
One Car Completed.
It Is said that one automobile has
been completed and that Il VII be
ready for inspection wnen Stensland
comes home.
The manager of the plant is alleged
to have received large saiary; the
overseer got his part in yellow bills
aud The typewritcl-fair and proL
ably worth the moncy$25 per week
The machinists are declared TO have
ccciyed the usual day wages.
In this manner. fritterng away dol
lars upon an experimental machine.
nearly a quarter of million dollars
went from the Milwaukee Avenue State
bank
Stensland had a dream that his In
yention would bring a fortune. Wit
the fortune he expected to make good |
his speculations from he bank
The "chug chug' of the machine
dollars belonging to th
lepO itors
Up to the time the automobile stOr'
'amo to light the public had been az
/ loss 90 aecoun for the large sums
,pant in Steel Ball. No material re
suit had ever come TO the knowledge
If the receiver The company stood
IS the exponent If a known quantity
" bank stealing. That was all.
Curtain Raised on Folly.
Now the cur ain is raised on III /
at act Of folly
The mysterious automobile tells the /
tory.
Blighted affections and blasted fam
y ties that are worth 500 a month /
} dividends came yesterday info the
rena wherein the Stensland story is
ow playing its thirty eighth continG
rs performance.
Following the brother act Of Pau
nj Henry. financial contortiunists:
le directors quinte o.. in their pet
atual sleeping stunt; the Frantze-
on how TO ride slow horses
a sudden end; the Ole Stenslsnd 1,
the Theodore Sten o
nd loop-the law miracle. and IN, 4
regerson love duet. Inspector Ship, s.
s-7 erday introduced several new Tea II
res. IN
Not to be- Juidone by the inspector n
e bank book came along with al ~
Z wherein IL was shown how 10 &
axe a broken hear; bleed 500 a il
onth. Among the papers turned up
. clerks in the bank were mum a
.r of cashiers checks payable e.
l'llip Notava They represented e
on hly payment II sioo. made foi NJ
veral months al
They alsa rrur -sntcd an addition 81
the Sl.5no paid in a lump sum by nj
ensland for the purpose Of quieiing oi
e disturbance rai-eG by Notava in
hen he a a-certained tnat Ms Notava ~
ID been viewed by the banker as n
lyid. tbe King. viewed be wife Of n
! friend -
David SEN his friend on 90 the wari
be killed stensisud paid cash
Stensiand bad the husband put o1
e paw roll and pail with ca hiers
scks That t. what b. checks show pi
fsat -tate-utn. is made vita an br
press qualification. for the records HI
the bank are likely 20 show any- 81
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