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Show Free Woman Shackled for Five Years in Stable New York. Shackled for five years by ankles, and wrists In the dingy, un-lighted un-lighted stall of an abandoned stable, during which time she had forgotten how to converse Intelligibly, Anna Ko-laudo, Ko-laudo, twenty-seven, was discovered and liberated by authorities of Turin, N J., near Newark. The girl's mother, Mrs. Maria Rolando, Ro-lando, and her stepfather, wealthy owners of the farm near Turin, where Anna was held captive, were arrested. When Investigators, led by Indignant neighbors of the Rolandos, entered the stable and approached Anna's cell by lantern light, the girl crouched In a corner. Then seizing a metal dish, she banged upon a grated hole In the stall, apparently expecting something to eat. Draping her burlap . wrap more closely about her, the girl blinked dazedly and voiced guttural, meaningless meaning-less sounds as her discoverers led her Into the sunlight. When they Indicated by gestures that she had regained her freedom. Anna shouted shrilly, ran about the j barnyard like a wild thing and then flung her arms about an official, breaking break-ing down completely. . The girl, Investigators said, had been obliged to sleep on a bed of straw. Her exercise was confined to pacing the short length her chains allowed, al-lowed, and she had not seen daylight for five yearB. |
