The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-04
STORY DE THE CHASE.
Representative of The Tribune Tells of
 the Pursuit,

Representative of The Tribune Tells of
 the Pursuit.
 Chicago, Sept. 3.--A cable despatch to The Tribune from Gibraltar publish ed this morning, says:
 Paul O. Stensland. president and wrecker of the Milwaukee Avenue Bank. left Gibraltar for the eastern coast of Africa at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, just one hour and forty min utes before the representative Of Tho Tribune and Assistant States Attorney Harry Olson arrived, after trailing him from America to England thence to Gi- braltar. to Tangier. Morocco. back to Gibraltar and thence to Ronda. where he saw a bull fight and to Rohedella. Granada, Seville.i and other Spanish towns
 stensland is traveling under the alias of P. Olsen. of Norway.
 Either Stensland Is absolutely sure that he is not being followed or he has become extremely careless. for he Is leaving a trail very wide. s His capture practically is certain We leave today on a private torpedo boat and will either come up with the quarry in twenty ty-four hours. or arrive at the farthest point ahead of the flu gitive.
 Grummere, the American Minister to Morocco. is on watch and the moment
 
 Departent he will send detail of the sultans soldiers to make captive Of the banker.
 Stensland chose Morocco as a perma- nent residence, because there is no ex- tradition treaty with that country. The Sultan at Fez, however, to whom MT. Grummere is going on his official mis- sion in two weeks, will do anything for President Roosevelt. Vhe matter of throwing a man in jail and keeping him indefinitely Is so small a request that it Is granted before it is asked Two weeks in a Moorish prison would make a man willing to go anywhere else.
 If stensland decides to return peace fully, well and good. Otherwise. one of the United States warships that will be in Gibraltar in ten days, probably will cross to Tangier, the fugitive will be thrown on board and headed for Chicago.
 The bank wrecker is on the German tramp steamer Oldenberg. The fact that he thinks he is not being followed is shown by the directions he left at the Grand Hotel, telling the clerk where to forward his mail for the next two months. He figured on spending the month of October at Terrific, in the Canary Islands. He has some corre- spondent or friend in London, for he or dered his mail sent to the Metropole Hotel.
 If he should elude capture for the next few days he will come to a sud- den halt in his travels because of lack of funds We discovered that he has S12.0oO in a bank in Tangier. Steps have been taken by Assistant States At torney Olson to tie this money up, and if possible. restore 1t to the swindled depositors
 I was told story of woman scorn- ed that led to the finding of stems lands trail One of his numerous friends who thought she had been shab- billy treated put The Tribune in pos session of the first hint as to the fugi- lives whereabouts. Her information was indefinite, but investigations prov ed its probable accuracy Finally, Au- gust l3. it became certain that he was in Tangier and had been for sixteen days. He fled from Chicago Sunday. July 12, went direct to New York and took the White Star boat, sailing Tues dav for Liverpool and stayed in that city two days. Stensland then took the p and O. boat reaching Gibraltar July 27 There he immediately took the boat for Tangier.