Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-28
MESSAGE TELLS
/. Of GIRL s FLIGHT
WITH BOAROER
Margaret Manning's Foster.
Mother Says William Lee
Has a Wife.
ORDERED FROM HOUSE, HE
DREW REVOLVER, Is CLAIM
Said He Was Getting Divorce
and Wanted to Marry To-
. Year=0ld Child.

slave taken Margaret. Had hard
time. Could not part. VIII write FRI
day. WILL
When an American District messen-
ger boy delivered this laconic note at
II Hunter street last night the bottom
all but dropped out of Mrs. Mary Man
ning's world.
Margaret Manning would not have
been II years old for seven months, and
she WAS the apple of her foster
mothers eye. Sixteen years ago, when
Mrs. Mannings sister, Mrs. Margaret
Hinchy. died, she left wee daughter,
whom Mrs. Manning legally adopted
and who became as dear to her as her
own could possibly have been.
Earlier in the evening she had
breathed sigh of relief when William
IJ. Lee, troublesome boarder, oade
her goodbye, saying he was going to
st. Paul 10 accept a job he had OBJ
tanned that very day. Mrs. Manning
felt so good about losing Lee, who had
been altogether too attentive to Mar
garet to suit her, that she had per-
mitted Margaret to accompany him to
the South street station of the Penn
sylvania to carry an extra suitcase.
Two hours later she discovered that
the extra suitcase was packed with
Margaret's clothes, as they were miss
ing from the closet where they had
been hanging.
Message Had Been Left.
/ Then, after two more hours, Mrs.
Manning's suspense was lightened and
her misery increase ly the receipt
of the note which had been left in the
telegraph office for midnight delivery.
/ "I'll do anything in the world to get
my girl. my baby. back" said Mrs.
/ Manning today. TO think I could
( have been so blind as not to have
/ known what might happen. but
/ never dreamed of such a. thing. Mar
! garet was just a little girl to me, al
though / realize now that she hao
grown up in the past two years. They
refused ii the police coUr here. to take
a complaint against Lee, as Margaret
was more than 16. But I'll not give
up this search until at least I've had
an opportunity to try and rescue my
little girl"
The story of the surreptitious court
ship, as told by Mrs. Manning in q
self accusing tone, was as follows:
Untila short time ago Mrs. Manning
/ and her foster daughter lived in lev
York. While visiting friends In New.
ark Margaret met Lee, who was a pri.
vate detective from a New Yorl
agency doing local streetcars for tbs
I (t1,.
ago Mrs. Manning came to Newark ane
opened a boarding house at IL Hunter
street. Lee was one of the very frs
| boarders to apply.
Discovers He Has n Wife.
He seemed mildly interested in Mar
garet, and when Mrs. Manning dis
covered he had a wife living in Brook
lyn she ordered him from the house
He laughed down her fears, said ther'
was nothing between him and the girl
and that he was getting a divorce, any
! way.
] Two days ago Lees manner changed
| He demanded that Mrs. Manning con
sent to his marriage with Margare
when he obtained his, divorce. Wher
i she threatened to have him arrested
he drew revolver, she says, and de
clared he would kill her if she inter
fered.
/ She was planning to have him forci
bly, elected from the house yesterda,
when he announced he was leaving
| that night for st. Paul.
Mrs. Manning missed SIS. She admits
Lee could not have known where i
was
Lee, in addition to being sleuth
was something of an author, having
written book entitled THE Spotter,
dealing with secres service methods. HI
| is 36 years old.