Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-01-20
LITTLE GIRL LOST AND FOUND.
Marjorie Nield's Disappearance Caus-
81 ed Great Uneasiness.

N19lQ, the young udugnCSr or Mr. and
7 Mrs. G. M. Nield, former residents
T of Walhalla. The following dispatch
from Yicksburg, Miss, to the Allan
ia Journal was the first Information
received here OF the unhappy occur
renee:
"Yicksburg, Miss, Jan. 15.-
Vicksburg is greatly excited over the
disappearance of Miss Madge Nield,
daughter of a prominent travelling
man, who has not been seen since at
tending music lesson Thursday af-
ternoon. kidnapping is suspected, as
every other theory has been explain
2, ed. Mayor Hayes to-day called
mass meeting of the citizens for this
afternoon to institute a search of
the city and surrounding territory.
Miss Nield is brunette, fourteen
years old and pretty"
Saturdays and Sundays papers
were eagerly scanned by many for
information concerning the little
girl, but not word was found aside
from the announcement of her dis
appearance last Thursday. Late
Saturday night, however, Mrs. G. X.
Maxwell, Mrs. G. M. Nield's mother,
received telegram announcing the
1inding of Marjorie, with the state
ment that particulars would follow
by mail.
The story as told by the Vicks-
burg Evening Post of last Friday is
too long for us to reproduce in full,
but we take from it the following
Facts OF the Discovery.
Little Madge Nield, the fourteen
year-old girl whose disappearance
aroused the whole city, was found
this morning by Louis SWEET She
was In the Vicksburg National Mill
tary Park, on confederate avenue,
trying to find her way back home.
Mr.. SWEET at once brought the
child back to the city and carried her
to the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. r. d.
Belts, where she was placed. The
distracted parents and friends were
at once apprised Of the finding of the
missing child.
&c. M. Nield, the father of the
girl, together with Rev. J. S. Hill
house, Alex FitzHugho and others
who had searched the greater part
of the night, went to the Belts home,
and in hack conveyed little Madge
to her own home, 211 Drummond
street, where she was restored to
the arms Of mother and sisters and
friends who had been nearly distrac-
ted, and who had spent q sleeDiess,
anxious night.
"All of last night the father of
the missing girl, the whole Of the
police force and scores of friends
searched for the child. The whole
city was aroused and during the
morning the search was continued
with zeal.
Madge Not Harmed.
"NIadge went through a trying eX-
nerience but besides the nervous
ue&S rcsul ling from her night C ter
,or biat cred feet from her long
tramp a. i the shock of the fair,
she is uoae the worse. 1t was not
deemed ecessary to call in a lysi-
clan wnen Madge reached the Nield
home, but numebr of the kindly
neighbors gathered and volunteered
to do anything in their power.
1T was believed that all the child
needed was rest and quiet, and that
in a few days she will be all right
again.
Yesterday Madge went to her
music lesson at the home of Mrs. A
NJ GAMER, Crawford and Monroe
streets, She left Mrs. Gamers at
O'Clock with the intention of going
home on street car.
Little Madge's Story.
''The child, though still little
upset by her trying experience, told
connected story about her wander
ings when she reached the Belts
home. She said she had boarded
street car at some switch (she did
not remember just where this was)
believing 1t to be Speeds car. There
nave been some schedule changes re-
Gently which made such a mistake
easily possible. However, Madge
had boarded cemetery car and she
was taken to the end of the line.
She had given her last nickel to the
conductor, and she was so timid that
she was afraid to ask the conductor
to carry her back to the city. So she
al1ghted near the cemetery, believ-
Ing that she could walk back to
town. The neighborhood was en-
tirely new to the girl and she had to
inquire her way to the city. She
met several negroes and white per-
sons, and while all of them volun.
teered the information, none at
tempted to accompany her.
Nightfall came en-, and as differ
ent information was given the child
she became confused and lost her
way. The roads were muddy and the
weather threatening, and after wan
dering about while, failing to fiud
her way to the city, the child became
frightened at the idea of being
abroad in the dark, and when she
stumbled across p school house she
entered it. Just what school house
this was and whether or not it Is
being used at present the child could
not say.
There all alone in the darkness
hItn nn,tG flD
child spent lonely vigil. She could
not Sleep and waited for the dawn