Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1894 — NOW SEEKS INDEMNITY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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An American Citizen Who Claims He Was Unjustly Imprison'd in Russia. Nicholas N. Fredrikssan is an American citizen who claims that he was unjustly arreste i and imprisoned in Rus-

sia. He will endeavor to have the State Department atWashing ton demand indemnity from the Russian government Ftedrikssan is an architect and a mechanical engineer. He was born in Persia. but years ago took the < ath of al-: legiance to the Unit-! ed Slates, and received his education in Chicago and at :

California College. East Oakland. Last year he went to' Russia with his wi e to build a facto: y lor Gen. Rebainder, a noted Ru s an. At. Kursk he was arrested by a gendarma, who said he looked like a n ted criminal. His passp rts were all right, but he was thrown into prison, ana dragged from one to another for almost a year. Bv bribing a gendarme, he says, he finally escaped. He claims that he was halfstarved and treated with shocking brutality.

N. N. FREDRIKSSAN.