Consul-General Philip to the Assistant Secretary of State.
Tangier, September 12, 1906.
Sir: I beg to confirm my cable message to the department of today, the 12th instant, as follows, viz:
Stensland now on board Prinz Adalbert, under charge Olson and Keeley. All arrangements satisfactorily carried out here. Steamer sails 6 p.m. to-day for New York.
(Signed) Philip.
I have the honor to state that subsequent to the department’s cabled instructions to the American minister to Morocco, received on the 9th instant, the Tangier agent of the Hamburg-American Line received a message on the 10th instant to the effect that the steamship Prinz Adalbert would call at this port on Wednesday morning on her way from Naples to New York.
Messrs. Olson and Keeley were privately informed to hold themselves in readiness to convey P. O. Stensland, under their charge, on board the said steamship immediately upon its arrival at Tangier.
The Prinz Adalbert entered the harbor at 1 p.m. to-day, and the party proceeded at once on board, accompanied by an official of this consulate-general, where excellent accommodation was found to have been reserved. Owing to some small mishap to a boiler tube the vessel, was unable to leave at the hour intended (6 p.m.), but was delayed several hours longer and has just left this port at the hour of writing.
Messrs. Olson and Keeley, since receiving authorization to assume full charge of the man Stensland, have carried out their task in a most efficient and thorough manner, being aided in every way possible by the Moorish authorities and particularly the governor of Tangier. Every precaution has been taken in guarding the accused man in the small Moorish house near this office in which he was confined.
Stensland has, however, been entirely resigned to his circumstances and has apparently desired most earnestly to be conveyed into the United States for trial and punishment at the earliest possible moment.
I am, etc.,
American Consul-General.