The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08
GIRL HELD
 FOR VIOLATION . OF LIQUOR LAWS
Twelve Year Old Nancy Phillips Weeps At
 Awful Plight

Nancy Phillips, a pretty blue-eyed girl, who celebrated her twelfth birth day last month, was held Saturday in custody of Mrs. Elizabeth Barter, DO licewoman, after a raiding squad had found her retailing whisky at 2614 Fourth avenue.
 { Her sister, Silvia Phillips, 20 year. old, was under arrest charged with viO. lating dry laws. She used her little sister in an effort to cover up her operations, police charge.
 Weeping bitterly but fatly refusing to ten anything on her older sister Nancy unfolded a pathetic story t Mrs. Barter and other ofeicers. .Sh, will be taken before the juvenile cour'
 Nancy said she was born in Gun man county, Her parents have been dead several years and she has been sshanded around" from one relatives to another. She has been to school less than three months, she said.
 q want to 90 away from Birmins. ham, and I never want to see this place again." Nancy sobbed. T was with one of my sisters in Jasper, hay ing a good time. Silvia took me to Gull man. county and then brought me on here. I've only been in town three days"
 Asked how much liquor she sold, Nancy denied the charge.
 "Why were you pouring some out when the officers cAme?" Mrs. Barter asked her.
 q was just pouring" was all she would say in reply. Then she began crying again.
 Don't cry, Dearie," Mrs. Barter told her. Were not going to do any thing to you except get you away from a life like this. But I'm going to try to keep that sister of yours in jail, where she can't keep on doing things like this"
 The little girl may be placed in q girls training school, or possibly turned over to her married sister in Jasper, who, officers reported, does not know she is in Birmingham.
 Police say Nancy is the youngest defendant ever taken in Birmingham, and probably in the country, on a liquor charge.
 II don't know what's going to be. come of the younger generation if aw- full things like this continue to hap pen," sighed Mrs. Barter Commission. CT w. B. Cloe offered his sympathy to Nancy, but denounced the elder sister who is charged with her down. fall at such a tender age.
 The rAiding squad had to break ia theS door of the house to effect an entrance. Policewomen Barter and Brown, City Officers Glover, Estey, Hubbard and Riley, and Narcotic 1n- spectOrs Camp and Madray were in the party;
 we have ever uncovered" OfficeR Glover told reporters. Several men were in the house, and other women, who, we believe are relatives of the little girl was pouring out glass of liquor. partly filled, many empty bottles and other containers were found. The little giry was pouring out a glass of iq- There were signs that narcotics had been sold on the premises, though we found none. The whole house was filthy"
 Police officers believe the fact that Nancy was found so soon after coming to Birmingham may enable juvenile court officials to save her. Her sister.
 Two men in the house at the time of the raid, who gave their names as W. H. Egell and Sim Carson, were arrested on charges of visiting a place where intoxicants were on sale. Late Satur- day night Silvia Phillips was released from city jail on $1OO bond, posted by I " RArrv and T P Vann