New-York tribune., 1907-12-09
WOMAN HELD PRISONER
POLICEMAN SENT TO AID.
1sbury Park Nurse Lured South and
Living IN Terror, She Says.

Asbury Park " j.. Dec. S-Thomas BrOderick a
policeman started late last night for Halifax
D c.. to rescue Olga SjostedC thirty years old
n trained nurse from this place. who says that she
has been living In terror there since Thanksgiving
a prisoner in two room tumbled down log hut
where mice and rats swarm over her at night. Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Lange. with whom Miss Sjostedt
boarded at No. sos Bond street. appealed TO Chief
OF Police Smith anu Mayor Atkins last night and
raised funds to send policeman To investigate her
story told by letter. Miss Citizen. of Fifth ave
nue.. also received letter. did DIR. James F.
Ackerman. Claude V. Guerin. Mrs. J. j. Taylor
and others
Miss sjostedt left Asbury Park for Halifax on
the Tuesday preceding Thanksgiving. She had
advertised in New York newspaper for a place
as housekeeper in the South preferrins so there
because OF throat trouble. She received an an
swer from man VINO represented himself a
member of an old Southern family and a big plan
tation owner. and she decided to go. Miss SjoStedt
who was -aursc in the Spanish-AmeriCan War
Is well known in this city where she attended sew
eral persons She had lived here different times
IN the last eight years and for the last year had
lived with Mr.. and Mrs. Iange. She is a SweCe
wei educated and woman OF refinement
In her early letters Miss Sjostedt told how she
was met at the station by her employer and driven
TO the plantation. This place she describes as
midway between Welden and Halifax. miles from
any neighbors and with nothing but negroes on
the place. The money which she took for a return
ticket in she did not wish TO stay she said
was taken from her. One of her letters TO Mrs
Taylor says:
When You get this Mrs Iange will have cot
here. but did not tell the facts ahonf the 49,.
My Godi it is worse than a niggers place in @et-
13rk; Inc msgefs fare better than ! do It is
only little log cabins all around in his ward am ~
starving; two meals to-day of corn rnush am
locked In the room / sleep in nights ana in fha
Daytime he watches me like eagle. He don't
allow me to talk to any IL is as cold as A.,
the middle of winter This room where sIsaS ~ ~
dirty: yes filthy. / have 10 get up at o'clocE 70
go out with lantern milk the cow and Faed 81
the horse and calf. "'i" ECU
My God! think he is insane he must he crszv
ne talks SO at times He has told me he is a grass
widower Slxty-eiSht years old He is deaf and
blind in one eye He was looking over NV shouijer
wLen wrote TO Mrs. Lange and afterward read il
am afraId OF him l wrote Mrs. Large's letter
py nches When he was out riding horseback 7 am
sick now. no doctor within twenty miles-ten miles
away out in the woods, away from civilization In
the room sleep In the rats and mice run loose
SEND me some stamps l can write. He puts
water IN the milk; IT is blue indigo. No but
giving. stuffed with cornmeal
Oh, my Godi will starve and freeze In daatb
and you will never know ANYTHING about it. For
COO 5 sake SEND somebody to help me TO get away
And help me to borrow some money some way. He