The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-05-22

house every day. In telling of Incl
dents that prove to him and Mrs. Dun
bar that the boy is their child, he
grows tensely serious and strikes his
hands together with an impelling en-
phasis He said that he had spent
everything he had in the world to
rescue his boy and to trace the child
that walters claims Bobbie to be, and
that he is not going to take the word
of Mrs. Bilbo or anybody else as to
the identity of his son. He is sure
that the Bilbos will have an oppor-
tunity to see Bobbie, but not until he
is ready to let them.
Talk About Requisition.
When seen by a News reporter Mr..
Dunbar was quite loath to talk with
reference to his plans, OF to give any
information as to the object of his visit
to Hattiesburg, assigning as his reas-
on that previous publicity as to clues
has resulted in sudden breaks in
chains of evidence that were both dis
concerting and expensive.
This disposition to withhold intor-
nation as to what line of investiga-
ton he and his associates are persu-
ing, did not apply to other features Of
the case, as Mr.. Dunbar was quite free
in giving expression to the opinion he
entertains of Governor Brewers atti-
tude with reference to the extradition
of Walters on the requisition of Gov
ernor Hall, of Louisiana.
Mr.. Dunbar expressed his amaze
ment at the position of the Mississippi
governor in asserting his determine
ton to hold Walters in this state until
Mr.. and Mrs. Jeptha Bilbo have passed
their opinion as to whether or not the
little boy at Mr.. Dunbar's home is the
same child that w. c. Walters had
with him when stopping with the Bill
Dos some time last July.
Even though Mrs. Bilbo should de.
eide that the boy is the same, Dunbar
declares it is entirely possible for a
woman as old as Mrs. Bilbo to get heI
dates confused. His contention OF
this point is based on the experience
with hundreds of other people as tc
their memory of dates, since he began
the search for his boy Immediately af
ter he was stolen last August.
Should Mrs. Bilbo decide, however
that his boy is the same one she saw
and her dates were not confused Mr.
Dunbar says he is utterly unable tc
see the justice of demanding that
corroborative testimony piled as high
as heaven should all be subject to i'm
mediate destruction by the simple
caprice of memory of one woman, who
certainly has had no better opportuni
ty to have had the child's form ant
features fixed upon her memory, thar
did the mother who bore him, and un
der whose care he was reared up Il
the hour when the cruel kidnapel
snatched him away from his parents.
Other Proof.
Other features suggested by MI
Dunbar in connection with the identi
f1cation by both father and mother o
their little boy whom they were fol
tunate in recovering within eigh
months after his separation from then
are noted. Among these are the pos
tive statement by him that he ha
proof that while in Walters posses
sion, the little boy had given his nam
as Robert Dunbar; that since he go
home the boy has stated voluntaril
that when he was taken away he wa
on railroad track; that the men VIII
carried him off, put him in an "ol
dirty car" that since he went bac
to Opelousas he has been recognize
by dozens Of children with whom b
has played and hundreds of citizen
who knew the boy, have asserted pos
lively that the little boy in questio
is Robert Dunbar; that without an
suggestion from anyone, Robert ha
demanded to know where his hig
chair was when he saw his little brotl
er occupying a chair at the table, an
without guidance or direction he ha
gone to where the chair was usual
kept and himself hauled it up to tn
table for his own use, chair whic
has been an heirloom in the Dunbs
family for a hundred years and th
same one Robert had used before b
, was kidnapped; the Italian fruit vendC
from whose stand the little boy ha
frequently snatched fruit, remembers
that the child was the same one VIII
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