Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1906 — HOW STENSLAND WAS CAPTURED [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOW STENSLAND WAS CAPTURED

Followed to Tangier by Assistant State’s Attorney Olson. BANK LOOTER THUNDERSTRUCK Steps Being Taken to Bring • the Fugitive Back to United States. Sultan of Morocco Expected to Turn the Prisoner Over to His Captor on Demand of United States Government. Chicago, Sept s.—Paul O. Stensland is a prisoner in the United States legation at Tangier, Morocco. He was captured in that city by Assistant State’s Attorney Harry Olson after a pursuit which began Aug. 17. News

of the apprehension of the absconding president of the Milwaukee Avenue State bank, whose thefts exceed sl,000,000, was received from Mr. Olson by Assistant State's Attorney James L Barbour in a cablegram directing him to notify the authorities at Washington at once. First Steps at Springfield. First official steps, representing the demand of the state of Illinois for the return of Paul O. Stensland. bank wrecker, from Tangier, Morocco, are to be taken by Governor Deneen at Springfield. The demand, to be given voice abroad through the state department at Washington, is expected to be followed by au order from the sultan of Morocco to turn the Tangier prisoner over to the custody of Assistant State's Attorney Harry Olson. Three weeks from today, it Is declared, it should be possible to thrust Stensland into a cell in the Cook county jail, there to await trial on charges of stealing more than $1,000,000 from the Milwaukee Avenue State bank. There is to be no hitch in the legal proceedings over Stensland. If the Moroccan authorities turn him over, his American captors will take no chances of international troubles. They plan to put Stensland in a rowboat, paddle out to a special chartered steamer in Tangier harbor, hoist the prisoner aboard, lift anchor and strike a bee line’ for New York harbor. It may be that a craft of the United States navy will be used as a prison ship. Within three days the papers calling for Stensland’s return to Chicago will be on their way across the Atlantic. Assistant State's Attorney F L. Barnett left for Springfield with them. He will return to Chicago during the evening and then go on to Washington. Gummere Aids Captors. There Assistant Secietary of State Alvey A. Adee is to complete the formalities on which depends the hopes of the government for Stensland’s return. While the state and government officials are busy on this side of the sea Samuel R. Gummere, minister to Morocco, is trying to make easy the road of Stensland’s captors. He has instructions to learn If, In the absence of extradition treaties, the sultan, as an act of grace and without promise of reciprocity, will deliver Stensland to the Americans. When Stensland was captured at the British postoffice In Tangier he was attaching his name to a request to have his mail forwarded to Mogador, Morocco, a little town on the north African const, seldom visited by tourists. He was about to sign “Paul Olsen,” the name he had assumed, when Assistant State's Attorney Olson entered the postoffice. The assistant state's attorney walked over to the busy and unsuspecting fugitive. “I am Olson. Sign your own name, Stensland,” said the attorney. Stensland was thunderstruck. He realized at once his flight had been futile. He made no attempt to conceal his identity, for he and the man who accosted him were acquaintances before he fled. Stensland’s"agitation at his arrest subsided in a short time. He accompanied Mr. Olson to the United States legation, where he was held prisoner.

PAUL. O. STENSLAND.