The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-03-18
LURED GIRL AWAY
SEVENTEEN RESCUED FROM SEA
IN BINDING SNOW STORM.
GIRL WANTS IT PRINTED
Little Fifteen.Year-Old Girl From
Jacksonville is Apparently OBJ
sessed With the Hope of Seeing
It in the Papers''-Doesn't Realize
the Enormity Of Her Crime.

After a search which began last
Saturday afternoon, when Estelle
McCluney, the thirteen-year-old
daughter Of Mr. and Mrs. Fl. C. Nc
Cluney, proprietors of the Richmond
House, mysteriously disappeared
from her home in Jacksonville, Fla,
she was located at Charleston Sun
day afternoon by Chief Of Police
Cantwell and Officer Brinker. A
young man, whose name is said to be
George Hudson, OF Charleston was
also detained.
The McCluney girl and Hudson will
be used as witnesses against Hay
mond H. Smoak of Savannah who is
accused of white slavery. Paying
the girls transportation for Jack
sonville to Savannah for immoral
purposes is the charge against
Smoak.
When interviewed by a reporter
the girl said that she was Is years
old, but she does not look that old,
and her mother claims she is not.
She proved a clever talker and spoke
very freely of her plight. That she
does not realize the seriousness OF
her predicament was evident from
her query as to the amount of pub
licity that is being given to her.
"Will my arrest here be in the
Savannah and Jacksonville papers
and in the Atlanta papers, too?" she
asked the reporter. will you please
send me copy of your paper to-
morrow"
When asked why she had left home
she replied: "They accused me of
running around in the streets in
Jacksonville, something I never did,
and my mother ill-treated me-"
When asked if Raymond Smoak, the
Savannah man, charged with Turing
her away, had given her any money,
she said: Eyes, he gave me some
money, and also pawned my watch. p"
In answer to other questions by
the reporter her replies were: "Mr.
Smoak came here with me Sunday
night from Savannah. He was to
have married me, and when he left
he said that he would be back in
two weeks. I didn't know that he
was married until last night, when
l read it in a paper"
Smoak is 20 years old and was ar
rested in Savannah early Wednesday
morning by Detective Long Of the
Savannah police force, who was ap-
pointed special white slave officer for
the case. He is a married man, hav-
ing been welded about five months
ago to a young woman somewhat his
junior. He Is described as an at
tractive young man, easy OF speech
and manner.
Sunday night the girl sat In her
mothers lap in the police barracks
and hugged, kissed and patted her
and asked her not to take her back
to their home in Jacksonville. Her
mother said little and seemed to be
terribly distressed.
AS evidence in the hearing which
will be given the accused man Will
be a page from the register of the
G. Tobn Hotel which hears the sig
nature he used, it is said, when he
signed the names as Of a married
couple. A batch Of letters, that the
white slave official says will play a
strong part in the case, were found
in the possession Of Hudson, accord
ing to Mr.. Long, and are also being
taken back as evidence. The Nc
Cluney girl at the time she left her
home was a pupil in the sixth grade
of the LaVilla public school.