The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-09-14
STENSLAND FOUND
The Chicago Banker Has Been Cap
tured in Tangier, Morocco After
a Long Chase.
BETRAYED BY A WOMAN.
Was Tracked AcrOssed the Atlantic
and Through Europe by News
pnper Man-CaIled Himself
p. Olsen of Norway.


Chicago, Sept. "A cable message
to the Chicago Tribune from Tangier,
Morocco, Monday announced the cap
ture in that city of Paul o. Stensland,
the president and manager of the
defunct Milwaukee Avenue State
bank. The arrest was made by a
representative of the Chicago Tribune
and Assistant States Attorney Olsen
of this city, who have been on the
trail of Stensland since August Is.
During the period intervening be-
tween his flight and his arrest Stems
land has been going under the name
of P. Olsen of Norway. 1t was
learned before his arrest that he had
figured on spending the month OF
October in the Canary islands ana
from there going to London, as ne
had ordered all his mail sent to the
Metropolis hotel in that city from
Tangicr.
The news of the arrest OF Stensland
was received in the section OF the
city in which his bank is located with
great excitement A long line of de-
positors was in front of the bank
waiting for their money when the an
nouncement was made, and it was
greeted with cheers, groans and
threats.
Later advices received at the office
of the states attorney threw consid-
cradle doubt on tn statement that
Stensland would return peaceably.
Members of the office staff after the
receipt of the cablegram, the contents
of which they declined to divulge. be-
came suddenly busy in the preparation
of extradition papers and it is now eX-
pected that the fugitive will make
fight for his freedom. States Attor-
ney Healy declared, however, that
there is no doubt that Stensland Will
be brought back, as it is believed that
the sultan of Morocco will give him up
If the United States asks for him.
Later in the day additional particu-
lars of the arrest of Stensland were
received He was taken into custody
while in the British postoffice in Tan
gier He had alighted but short
time before from the German tramp
steamer Oldenburg and came to the
postoffice to direct the forwarding
of his mail under the name OF Paul
Olsen to Morgador, 400 miles south
west of Tangier. AS he entered the
postoffice he was recognized at once
by Assistant States Attorney olsen,
who at once placed him under arrest.
AS Stensland apparently made no
effort to conceal his trail the follow
ing was not difficult The closing OF
the doors of the Milwaukee Avenue
State bank which occurred on August
6 probably caused more anguish, suf-
fering and trouble than any similar
event in the west in many years. II
was followed by several cases OF sui
eide. a number of people were driy-
en- to insanity.
Stensland lived a fast life, spent
money recklessly, speculated wildly
and in one way or another made way
with about $1OO0,000 of the money OF
the bank before the crash came.
More than $4,000 families had money
deposited in the bank and the failure
came as a crushing blow to the ma
iority of them. The vast majority OF
the depositors were wage earners and
the money they had in the bank rep
resented all that they had been able
TO save from the earnings of years.
Washington, Sept. 1.-THE Moorish
authorities will interpose no objection
to the removal to America of Paul o.
Stensland, president of the Milwaukee
Avenue State bank of Chicago. A
dispatch to this effect has been re-
ceived at the state department from
Minister Gummere at Tangier, dated
Wednesday The dispatch added that
Stensland is a prisoner in the Amer
lean legation there.
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