The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1906-09-07
CAUGHT HIM
STENSLAND. PRESIDENT OF A
LOOTED CHICAGO BANK. CAP
TuRED IN TANGlER.
BETRAYED BY A WOMAN
Charged That He Mistreated Her, and
She Carried the Story 20 a News.
paper Office. and Stensland
Was Followed.

Tangier.-Mr. Paul q. Stensland
land, president Of the looted Milwau
kee Avenue state bank OF Chicago. is
no longer fugitive. The man who is
alleged 10 have looted his institution
OF nearly S2.0OOO00. and who bafficd
the detectives of the old and new
worlds could no. escape the vengeance
OF woman scorned
AZ eight o'clock Monday morning
Assistant States Attorney Olson OF
+ Chicago. accompanied by a Chicago
Tribune reporter placed his hand on
Stensland's shoulder in the Tanpier
post office. and the long pursuit was
over. Stensland cool and seemingly
hall glad that the suspense was ended
turned face lined from worry and
dissipation to his captors and said:
Yes, I'm Stenslaud 1 know they
want me back there. and I'll 30 with.
out further formaIities."
Stensland reached Taneier. Julv %
by the steamer Gibel from Gibraltar.
travelling as p Olson. of Norway.
Shortly afterward there arrived in
Tangier another Olson. but whose
name was bona fide. and whose arrival
meant the downfall Of the handsomely
dressed, dissipated looking stranger
who climbed the Hill on which the
quaint Moorish town Is built. entered
the city gate and hurried 10 the Grand
Hotel Oriental.
How Stenslard Was Tracked.
This second Olson was the assistant
states attorney Of Chicago. who had
been placed on Stensland's trail by a
woman whom the fugitive banker ia
alleged TO have mistreated I'm Chicago
and who carried her story TO a news
paper office The prosecutor had fol.
lowed the man through England and
through Spain. always an hour or two
too late. but sure Of victory in the
end
Stensland did not seem 10 be suspi-
cious at first. He mad 40 effort 20
cover his tracks. beyond the assum.
ton OF an alias. He rather avoided
the big hotels. but otherwise he made
himself prominent He was "spend.
err He lived at a terrible gait. and
his name became a by word in music
halls and dance resorts.
Again Olson was cheated however.
Hardly had he reached Tangier when
The man he was tracking departed for
Gibraltar. The prosecutor registered
AZ the Grand Hotel Oriental and told
he proprietor he was a son OF the
Olson who had preceded him
Charters Torpedo Boat.
think he has gone TO Gibraltar"
someone told Olson So the Chicago.
IN chartered a torpedo-boat which had
lot yet been turned over 10 the British
iavy and sped to Gibraltar.
He arrived two hours too late His
quarry had doubled on his water tract,
md had turned back to Tangier Olson
ollowed him. stensland. stin travel
ng as Olson, resumed his fast life !
The second Olson watched and bided J
Us time. He made the rounds of the {
ares ard sancing halls. sitting ,
nostentatiously where he could Eoen
erpetual vigil on his quarry-for the
'lson Of Norway was an inyeterate
blower Of the danseuses and cafe I
abitues. i
Day and night Olson watched Olson
ghere one wound his way through :
ne moonlight streets to scenes Of rev.
Try, the other followed. As though :
wing way under the constant hut as
at' hardly recognized surveillance !
le handsomely dressed stranger rev. !
ed in wine and song. spending his :
oney like water and arousing the =
alousy of the Arab chiefs who were :
niled upon ~ the feminine frequent.
$ OF the Cafe Francois. the Cafe I'm :
'rial and the Cafe Turesque. =
~ last the real Olson was sure. He !,
% found his man. When the two =
ct face to face in the post office. OIL -
n placed stensland under arrest.