The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-11-08
"A YEARS FOR \. W.HER|NG
STENSLAND GETS AN ADDITIONAL
SENTENCE OF FOUR YEARS
IN CHICAGO.
TWO WEEP ON STAND.
Efforts Made to Arouse Pity for Wreck
ers Of the Milwaukee Avenue
State Bank.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Nov. G.-Henry W.
Herring was sentenced TO the penisenti-
AIRY yesterday on pleas of guilty to
enlightenment and forgery for concur
rent terms not to exceed fourteen years.
Paul O. Stensland, arraigned anew on
Joint charge of forgery with Herring,
suffered the addition of four years to the
sentence inflicted when. September 20,
he faced justice alone and pleaded guilty
to cmbezzlement.
1t was a broken. trembling old man
who painfully mounted the witness
stand when States Attorney Healy re-
questcd Stcnsland to come forward. one
month in the penitentary had stamped
the prison pallor on his face, his closely
cropped head gave him an appearance
vastly different from that when he was
arraigned in September.
lie gave his age as 60 years, told his
oft-repeated story of unfortunate invest
mcnts, which had driven him to wreck
the bank, of his sacrifice of all of his
possessions in restitution and, reluctant
ly. of the part played by Herring III dl-
rcCting the embellishments.
Says He Lived Plainly.
He reiterated that he lived frugally
and that none of his fraudulently ac-
Uuired funds were disposed of otherwise
than in unfortunate investments. He
went over the Erant2en defalcation ana
denied that any in the bank, save nm
self and Herring. had positive knowledge
of the irregularities until the crash came.
II was after Stensland had told OF
slceplcss nights preceding his fight, his
faiuting ON the JrHln which sped hlm
away from Chicago, and his arrange
ncnt to sacrifice all his possessions IN
restitution, that he broke down on tue
stand and sObbed.
Il pleaded guilty September % to two
charges and received sentence | am
now serving serving tle sentence he
said. 1T does not make any difference,
your honor, how long or short time |
Shall remain. The shame and humlha-
ton is the knowledge that thousands and
thousands tru@ted me and that | be
traycd their trust. | shall not feel my
sins atoned until those depoStors have
received 100 cents ON the dollar When
/ get out. if there is anything left for
me. my sole ambition will be to work
for those people"
Questioned 10y Mr., IIcaiy as to his
determine ton To plead guilty and his
willingness to return to Chicago when
captured. he said:
Il knew | ought to be punished, and |
insisted on paying my own expenses re
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Herring Breaks Down.
Stcnsands captor nodded. Other
questions were put, calculated to elicit
statements serving to soften the punish
ment, and then Herring was called to the
stand. lie, too, broke down and wept,
He said:
II sought to help Mr.. Stensland. Con-
sequcntly l am here. | was the servant
of my master. | tried to help him out.
! don't think ! want to say any more,
unless the states attorney wants to ask
me some questions" He was questioned
along the line followed in the examina-
ton Of Stcnsand and broke down again
when asked about his family.
Both men again were brought before
the bar. and sentence was imposed,
They will reappcar, but only in the mi
nor roles of witnesses against the direc-
tors and other attaches of the bank who
remain to be tried. States Attorney
IIealy announced after sentence was pro-
nounccd, that both wopld be held in the
custody of the sheriff Il week or ten
days.
BY stipulation, both sentences in Her
ing's case run from the day he is sent
to the penitentiary, so that he will serve
not more than fourteen years. The sen
tcnce imposed on Stensland in Septem
ten years. by stipulation. the sentence
of not to exceed fourteen years, imposed
yesterday, dates back to September PC.
its effect being to add four years only
to that already imposed