Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-08-02
TO RESCUE GIRL
FROM JUMPERS.
MRS. ANNA LUNDELL, SAUK CITY,
IA, SAYS RELIGIOUS FANA-
TICS HOLD CHILD.
MOTHERS SEARCH ENDED
Meets Daughter on Street, Both Weep,
But Young Woman Returns to
the "Holies"

WAUKESHA, Wis, July 80 Spc-
ciaI. I-CareWOrn and sad with heavy,
lines of sorrow depicted on her counte-
nance, Mrs. Anna Lundell of Sank City,
la, has arrived in the city to secure, if
possible, her daughter, Olga, aged II,
from the Holy Jumpers and induce her
to return to her home from which, the
mother says, she was enticed by the
apostles OF Duke NJ. Farson in NCyem-
Der, 1906. The law has been invoked to
aid the mother in her quest writ of
habeas corpus having been issued by
Court Commissioner y. J. Hemlock on
application of Mrs. Lundell's attorneys,
rcturnable Wednesday morning.
According to the story of the mother,
who is accompanied here by an Older
daughter, Edith, Olga, a momely lass of
rs, and sophomore in the Sank City
high school. was happy and cOntented
in her home and school life until a band
OF the Holy Jumpers under the leader
ship, it is said, of K. l.. Erickson, now
Il member of the Fountain House colony
and recently arrested here on Il charge
of disOrderly conduct, made their APP
pearance at Sank City. year ago, and
commenced a series of camp meetings
and revivals in the town. Accompanied
by her sister Edith and a neighborS
daughter, Lucy Smith, Olga attended
many of the meetings attracted by the
unusual demonstrations of the strange
sect.
Fascinated by Jumpers"
From the first, the mother says, the
exhOrtatiOns Of the Jumper" evangellstS
seemed to have Il weird fascination for
the girl. Her companions soon became
Disguised and ceased to attend the meet
lngS of their own accord, but Olga per-
sisted in continuing to attend, on one
occasion her mother being compelled al
most drag her from the meeting. FL
nally she professed to have lost interest
in the sect and two weeks later she
disappeared. The parents suspected that
size has left i'll company with some or
the Jumpers but members of the band
StOuty denied this, says the mother, I'M
til summoned before the mayor of the
town when they admitted that she had
driven to Il ueighboring town with two
members OF the sect and boarded an east
bound train.
Fathers Search Fruitless.
According to the mother some days
later il letter was received from the girl
from this city. and her sister Edith I'M
mediately came here to find her. She
inquired at the Fountain house and was
ut first informed that no such person was
known there. Finally some of the mis-
sOnaries admitted the girl had been
there but that she had gone to Chicago.
The sister returned home and from time
to time letters from Olga were received
by the family. At Christmas time her
father, Peter Lundell, came here. going
to the Fountain house, where, it is said
he was unable to gain any information
Us to his daughters whereabouts.
Mrs. Lundell and her older daughter
arrived i'll the city Sunday evening and
went to the Fountain house yesterday
morning. The mother remained across
the street while the daughter went to the
door and asked permission to enter which
was readily granted. She discovered
Olga playing the piano and their greet
ing was affectiOnate. Olga was informed
that someone without desired TO see her.
and upon spying her mother across the
street dashed i&to her open arms.
Mother Finds, But Loses Child
The three returned to the Fountain
house. where Mrs. Lundel eXpoStuated
with her daughter urging her to return
home. With the words, Il can only go
where the Lord wants me to- the girl
burst into tears and while in her moth
er's embrace, Mrs. Lundell says, they
were surrounded by a crowd of the
Jumpers" who commenced to pray and
shout At this juncture, Mrs. Harvey,
wife of Edwin l.. Harvey, the official
head of the sect appeared on the scene
and, Mrs. Lundell says, grabbed her
from behind pinioning her arms tightly
to her side while Olga in tears was
brushed away with the statement that ii
after ten minutes of prayer she desired
to accompany her relatives she might
do so, but although the mother and sis
ter waited several hours she did not re
turn 1t was then that Mrs. Lundell
returned to the city and sought the coun-
sci of All attorney.
Then Seeks Aid of Law.
II would scarcely have recognized
Olga. except for her voice." Mrs. Lun-
dell said. her appearance had changed
SO, completely. When she left home she
was plump with rosy cheeks but now
she is scarcely more than Il living Skele
ton. She has been i'll l know In fact
she told me that God had healed her
from her disease but what it was she
did not say. l could not help crying
when | saw her, and l told her how
many sleeplesS and fearful nights we
had spent. She cried also and seemed
to want to go away, with me until Il
number of Jumpers appeared, when
her maune? completely changed and she
would only say she would go II God
wanted her to. OH | know that they
have some awful influence over her
which she is unable to shake off when
they are present.
According to Mrs. Lundell tie absence
of their daughter has nearly broken nh
their home The mother once robust
woman. is now Il shadow of her former
self. Deyout members of the Methods
church. the denunclationS of that faith
by tue Jumpers first caused the pa
rents to object to their daughter attend
ing the meetings. They are now deter
mined 60 regain her.