The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-12-18
GIRL RESCUED.
Held by a North Carolina Farmer
as q Slave
IN A BARN WITH RATS.

I'm A BARN WITH RATS
{ F. T. Pender Hired Miss Olga Sjos
tedt by Advertisement and Thel
Tried to Starve Her.-He Laugh
cd at Her Pleadings.-When Re
leased, She Declares Negroes Re
ceived Better Food Than She.
Half starved. yet joyful over hel
release from what she declared tc
be slavery. on farm owned by E
IT. Pender, six miles from Halifax
~ c., Miss Olga Sjostedt passed
through Washington D. c., on Thurs
day.
With her was Thomas Broderick,
formerly detective at Asbur: Park.
That is the home of the girl, who is
a trained nurse and who served in
that capacity in the Spanish-Amer-
ican War.
eOn the Tuesday before Thanks
giving Invent to Halifax to work for
Pender, whom I believe to be in
sane" said the girl. as she clnnS to
her rescuer.
tSince then Pender has made me
vertable slave. If Mr.. Broderick
had not arrived. would have killed
myself, as declared I would do in
letter written to friends.
Broderick's mission was & strange
one. He had been told that if, by
Sunday, Miss sjoste6t were not re
leased she would destroy herself.
Supplied with ample funds by the
girls friends, he hurried to the train
and early Thursday ne reached Hal
flax.
Hiring rig. the detertive sped
over the miles separating the little
town from the bleak, desolate farm.
Arriving there he found Pender,
hoary-headed man beyond so years
of age. He did not at first see tha
unfortunate nurse whose piteous aD-
peals for help by mail had aroused
Asbury Park.
Broderick, big, powerful man.
with a record for bravery. aggres-
sivelv demanded that the girl be pro
duced.
Pender snarled and refused to
comply. Broderick then resorted TO
milder means. He quoted the law,
He told Pender that he, having mir
ed the girl, was responsible for her
welfare.
He cited the fact as he knew 1t.
that she had been given only two
meals a day, both consisting almost
invariably of cornmeal. The detec-
tive also told OF letters, Miss SJcs-
tedt had smuggled North, describing
how she had been imprisoned IN
barn, through the cleats OF whlch
snow and the bleak winds blew.
This girl" thundered Broderlck'
came into your employ through an
advertisement. She was a1nlcVeo
with a slight throat trouble, ana
thought the South was the place tor
her. You accepted her as house
keeper, and as such you should nave
nroyided for her You haven't done
50, and if you don't deliver her to
me III have you hauled before
Judge"
pender quivered and finally broke
down. He led the detective to MISS
Siostedt, who at that moment she
said afterward, was contemplating
means of suicide.
She had said: st is better and
easier to die by my own hand than
to be starved to death by this lun-
attic
Miss siostedt flung her arms
around the big detectives neck "nen
be told her he had come to release
her. The pair got into the rig. Broo-
erick keeping one eye upon Penoe7
meanwhile, and they covered the SIN
miles of desolate country, Where ohls
b,1r dozen negroes and three or
four white persons live.
arriving at Halifox, they TOOK me
train northward. and reached WASH
incton. en- route to Asbury PARK.
Miss Sjostedt was in tears during
the trip, but her tears were not lhose
of one in agony The nervous st!ain
tbronsh which she had bravely pat
+,ed bevan to tell on her as she lelI
the shadow of the tumble-doWn oarn,
where Pender would thrust ner at
night and lock the door upon he',
and where rats and mice scampereo
about, adding more horror 10 Ae'
pitiable condition. ...ro.
.T never knew" she salc' thaC
white manor a man alleged 10
no white-could treat human BE-
ing in the manner Pender treated
NE He even laughen in my lace
when I begged for some nutritious
FOOD and offered me the same olo
dried up. unpalatable corn meal. E5
fad the negroes working for him bet
ter fare than he gave me.
Frederick gave no eAplanation
why after ne had rescued MSS oJos-
tedt he did not have Pender ar
roeted It is believed he had reasons
Of his own to justify this move ms
,,.;n object being to return MISS
siostedt to her friends.
WATCHMAN MURDERED