The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1906-09-27

Ascending Banker Has Been Returned
from AIsisrs After Q Hot
Chase.


by New York detectives. Paul o. STEMS
land. former president OF the Milwau-
kee Avenue state bank. Chicago. who
stands indicted for heavy embezzle-
ment from 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
wrecklng OF the bank. and according
10 his son. Theodore Stensland. he will
plead guilty to several OF the charges
brought against him.
S~tenslanl has made n complete con-
f~eEsion. according to Assistant States
Attorney Olsen. OF Chicago. who vent
TO Tangier. Morocco. to take the fer
mer bank official into custody. and I'm
his confession he implicated other
prominent Chicago men. Attorney
Olsen declined TO name these men.
Theodore Stcnsland. who gave out
an official statement for his father. de-
clarcd that the latter had made no
signed confession. but that he had ad-
wittcd committing certain oncnscs
which constitute efnbczzlement under
the Illinois law.
To some OF the indictments for en-
~ ~ r. ANN = VI NsANA NNAhA
guilty. he said. and In the case OF the
others he would turn states evidence
and implicaie all others who should be
Indicted I'm connection with the failure
OF the bank.
stensland made the further state
ment. according To the son. that II the
shortage in the bank was over 5000 Q
the money in excess OF that amount
had been taken by Henry W. Herring.
the former cashier Of the bank. who
was Jointly iriicted with Stensland on
charges OF stealing over 81 100000 from
the bank Gnl for forgery.
Stcuyland arrived I'm New York weak
physically and showing much evidence
Of the strain which has attended his
extraordinary Hight through man
countries. his desperate but Intellectual
Try Tor freedom down the West African
coast aUd his nnal capture I'm the
Moroccan City ~ Tansier. from which
place The United States authorities
wc.c permitted Io remove him by the
gov. rnMcai OF Morocco.
There was an affecting meeting be-
tween father anu son on board the tug
Catherine Moran. which the prisoner
boarded NJ quarantine.
StcuslaEd denies the report that he
tried To commit suicide while In Mo-
rocco. lie rays that "A sudden fainting
spell there wnH interpreted as an at
tempt at SET destruction by the Mo-
rccCln yoilicrs.
While father and son were In con-
ference Attorney Olsen was telling OF
Tie capture %! Siensland at Tangier
aGA ot how p,Tsistcntly Stensiand had
ltECrcd 10 reach ON place where the
arm OF the Law was not "A menace. He
iold OF the hurried flight from New
EUr!; 20 Gibraltar. the passage TO Tan
ricT. Morocco. the refuge den In the
mountains o. Spain and then the re-
,ur.i To Gibraltar. There the fleeing
ca!, iIl boarded the German steamcr
Jl!rntuI~ which was bound for the
Canary Islands. but which was stopped
~ ID pu. utu came before she
rtas.el ugr destination. The Oldcn-
LuTg put INTO TnnEicr. where her cap
tain igs p3s.ly delayed FOR three days
p'Eling iac settlement of the case OF
his g.Bse..rs St,aslOnd. Then fol-
lnws! a.. arrest OF Stcnsiaud In a
s;slgs "a TaEgi,r and his lnal decision
10 waive 'E'rIiliiun rights when he
found ;ls; thr Moroccan authorities
Ind agreed - -isw hts removal.
"sig,.H % went - TanEier." SIR. OIL
sea ar.i. "-acausr from his experience
us o. .'i.er many years he under
rso#' ..I- .Igg!rs was not n treaty
qrs, a... l.Gni De wps.d Dc perfectly safe
.ae'e.
80 lard rp..g1gcd TO me-" the at
ios3.ts continued. He talked freely
,as-f tro bank and III It's affairs. and
!u..i alci ErNurui Wra iu the wreCking
%. .an n.1a. 1 cannot name the men
hn referred %. Eyi their names VIII
Cg.1g Oh a.. i.s proper time.
81 .,ii.yn g.. VIII du everything pos
sil'r 60 winding u the affairs OF the
institution. N.th reference To the Elm
wool cemetery stock. Stcugiaud said he
considered u sery valuable aud that he
hoped - get ~ very sDu from a GER
g.U man whose EaTc he gave me.
This sto.E has figured somewhat Ia the
u!sygssi." ~ the Banks affairs"