The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1901-05-29
TAKEN FROM A DIVE
Where She Had Bsen P.ac ID by a
Bind Seagar.
WHO SEEMS TO BE A FRAUD
The Timely Rescus of a littls
White Oil From a Motor
GUS Negro Dsn In
Charleston.

says Nancy Jane McAteer, o young
white girl, aged 10 years, whose home
is in Chester, s. O., was Thursday
morning taken out of f. Capers' restau.
ralt on Market street by the police.
The girl had been placed there by
Robert Sumner, blind white IN an, who
was fined in the Recorders Court on
the charge of being drunk and for lar.
ceny of clothing from Anna Stewart,
Ill Cumberland street.
The place kept by Capers, who is a
negro, is notorious dive, and is in the
very heart ef the toughest and most
wicked section of Market street. II is
froquented by ell SORTS Of vile men and
wcm,n and is no place for a young
white girl. Capers has frequently been
before the grand jury on the charge Of
selling liquor and has also appeared be.
fore the Recorder on the charge Of
keeping q gambling dive.
As soop as it bee, me known at police
headquarters that tho McAteer girl was
living in this notorious resort, Lieut.
Dunn, the officer of the day, sent an
officer to the place and had her brought
to the station house. She seemed glad
to get out of the place and expressed a
desire to return to her home In Chester,
where her mother and father live.
Steps will be taken to have her sent to
her home. In tho meantime she viii
be cared for by the Florence Crittenton
Home, as Miss Thsrin, the matron of
that institution, has consented 10 take
charge of the giIl while arrangements
are b. ing made to have her returned to
her people. She was sent to the Crit
tenton Hume.
The child was seen at the police sta
tion shortly before being sent TO the
Crittenton Hone. She is blus. eyed,
faxen- hail ed girl, and is exceed
ingly bright for child of her years
She told the story of how she came to
be In Charleston in . plain, straight
forward, child like manner. Frequently
she would burst into tears and express
q with to return to her mother and
father in Chester.
She csme here laet Friday with Sum-
ner, bl nd man, to lead him sb Ut the
streets, 70, ILich he was to pay her
twenty Eve cents day and board. She
left her home with her mothers con
sent to 70 10 Columbia with Sumner,
who Na TO return her to her pecpio
last Mo-. day, but instead he brought
her Ci arleston Ever since her ar
rival in he citl che has b en- leading
him about tn, STREETS OF the city ard
selling rs 10 people. The verses
are Of the usua. character that blind
people pe ddle on the slrees. She slep.
and took her meals at the rest au amt on
Market rect.
mir Sumner is bad man some
times, said the girl, ."and Last night
he got drunk on be4r and wine and was
arrested, He is in the guard house
now. He curses, too. What are the
police going to do with me?" asked the
girl, and in the same breath said she
hoped they would send her home. Her
fathers name, she said, is Reed Mo,
Ateer, and works in cotton factory at
Chester.
Robert Summers stated that he had
hired the girl from her mother, saying
that he had agreed to pay her twenty
five cents per day to lead him about the
streets, and according to the contract he
owes the child s., but is not able to pay
her as business has been dull since COIN
ing to Charleston.
When asked why ho carried the Nc.
Ateer child 10 negro restaurant, he
said that it was the only cheap board
ing house he could find He declared
he never intended to come to Charles
ton again. Sumner has long curly hair,
which hangs down on his shoulders,
and he looks like the medicine man Of
Dead Mans Guich. In speaking about
his curly tresses he said he had a
sweetheart in days gone by whom he
loved intensely, and she asked him TO
let his hair grow long, and he granted
her request. ''You know, fellow will
do anything for the girl he loves" he
said.
Since coming to Charleston Sumner
has been high roller. All Wednesday
aftern DON it is said he was playing slot
machines and drinking beer. He fell
into the har ds of the police and from
him the whereabouts of the child we're
learned.