The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-05-29
TAKEN FROM 4 DIVE
Where She Had Sssn P.ac d by
Blind ssegar,
WHO SEEMS TO Be A FRAUD.
The Timely Rsscus Of q Littls
White Oitl From q Motor
Gus Negro Den In
Charleston.

The Charleston Post, of Thursday
says Nancy Jane McAteer, : young
white girl, aged 10 years, whose hcme
is in Chester, S c., was Thursday
morning taken out Of F. Cspers' restau-
rant on Market street by the police.
The girl had teen placed there by
Robert Spinner, blind white msn, who
was fined in the Recorders Court on
the charge Of being drunk snd for lsr
ceny CT clothing from Anna Stewart,
Ill Cumberland street.
The place kept by Csper5, who is a
negro, is 3 notorious dive, and is in the
very heart ef the toughest and most
wicked section of Market street. It is
freq1ented by sll sorts Of vile men and
wcnan and is 10 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 gambling dive.
As soon as it became known st police
headquarters that the McAteer girl was
living in this notorious resort, Lieut..
Dunn, the officer Of the day, sent an
oEcer to the place and had her brought
to the station bouse. She seemed glad
to get cut Of the place and expressed q
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. n the meantime she will
be cared for by the Florence Crittenton
Home, IS Miss Thsrin, the matron OF
that institution, has consented to take
charge of the girl while arrangements
are bsing made to have her returned to
her people. She was sent to the Crit.
tenton Htme.
The child wss seen st the police sta
ton shortly before being sent to the
Crittenton Home. She is a blue eyed,
aazen-hsiled girl, and is exceed
ingly bright for child Of her years.
Sbe 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
. wish to return to her mother and
father in Chester.
She came here last Friday with Sum
ner, biz man, to lead aim abaut the
streets, tor which he vas to pay her
twenty. i've cents day snd board. She
left her BONE with her mothers con-
sent to 20 to Columbia With Sumner,
who va. to return her to her people
last Monday, but instead he brought
Ter Charleston Ever since ler ar
rival in ,te city she has b, leading
him abt ut the streets Of the city and
selling v-rsts 20 people. The verses
are Of the usual character that blind
people peddle on the s:1eels. she slept
and took her M ais 81 tie restaurant Or
Market rect.
Mr. Sumner is bad man some
times, said the girl, ''and last night
he got drunk on te and wine and vas
arrested. He is in the guard house
now. He curses, too. What sre the
police going to do with me?' askad the
girl, and in the same breath said she
hoped they would send her home. Her
fathers name, she said, is Reed Nc
Ateer, and works in cotton factory at
Chester.
Robert Summers stated that he had
hired the girl from her mother, saying
that he had sgreed to pay her twenty
FIVE cents per day to lead him about the
streets, and according to the contract ne
owes the child IS, but is not able to pay
her as business has been dull since COIN
ing to Charleston.
When asked why he carried the Nc
Ateer child to negro restaurant, ne
said that it was the only cheap board
ing house he could fnd. 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 Gulch. In speaking about
his curly tresses he said he had a
sweetheart in days gone BY whom ne
loved intensely, and she asked him 10
let his hair grow long, and he granted
her request. 'You know, fellow will
do anything for the girl he loves, ne
said.
Since coming to Charleston Sumner
has been high roller. All Wednesday
afternoon it is said he was playing slot
machines and drinking beer. He fell
into the hards Of the police and from
MIN the whereabouts Of the child were