The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-05-04

has declared that her son had no
much marks and scars as are Wis
IDLE on Bobbie Dunbar.
Another link in the chain of proof
| is in the statement of B. S. Hood,
the Mayor of Bond, Miss, who has
recognized Bobbie by his striking
resemblance to his mother, a wom-
an of refinement and education, and
who is in every manner and speech
the very opposite of Mrs. Julia An
derson.
|. In reviewing this case we may be
in full sympathy with Julia Ander-
son of North Carolina. Situated as
she has been and having to rely on
her own exertions in obtaining the
ustenance of life and its actual
needs from small piece of ground,
she is possessed of limited knowl-
edge of reading and her writing is a
mere scrawl She has code of her
own-a mixture of the golden rule
and the rule of representation
fortified with an instinct of savag-
cry. She is inclined to religious fer
vor As other women, she lived not
wisely, and the man upon whom she
had placed her reliance deserted
her. From the alliance the child
Bruce was born. 1t is said she yield
ed to the opportunities of w. c.
Walters, when early in 1912 she
surrendered Bruce to him on his
promise to take him to her sisters
home in South Carolina. He was
then three years old. She has not
seen him since then and is appre-
hensive of his fate.
There is peculiar connection
with this man Walters which has
not been explained He was seen not
long since with three boys of about
the same age and size. What could
have been his object or purpose
with three boys, of whom BobDle
Dunbar was one? What has become
of the other boys, the Anderson
boy?
The presence of Julia Anderson at
Opelousas was made possible by the
New Orleans Item, to clear what
was apparently a mystery, Dat
which has been made sufficiently
plain to unbiased minds.
At Opelousas when confronted
with severay boys, the first to face
her being Bobbie Dunbar and then
the others in succession, Julia An
derson declared that neither was
her son. On a second inspection
when Bobbie Dunbar was stripped
Julia Anderson after close and
minute examination of every part
of the child's body, said she be-
lieved it was Bruce but was not
positive. In the face of this failure
at Identification, the proof of Bob
bic being Dunbar's child is still
strengthened, but it matters little
since the identity Of Boobies paf-
entage has been made plain. and no
question of doubt should arise.
In this case, which is stranger.
than fiction, is involved the life OF a
man. In Louisiana the penalty. Tor
child stealing is dtath; therefore 1t
is not surprising that Walters IS
striving to escape the penalty
should he be tried and convicted.
Having failed in the identification
of her son, as she expected, julia
Anderson has gone to face walters
in Jail in Mississippi and demand OF
him the restoration of her child, but
as may be assumed Walters will not
fail to appeal to her prejudice, to
her predisposition for revenge, &C
cording to her hode, and he may
persuade her that her child is in the
possession of the Dunbars. Ii ne
should do this and she may be IN
duced to go to Opelousas and claim
the child as her own, there will be
sustained perhaps doubt which may
lead the Governor of Mississippi to
delay the honoring of the requlsltlon
for Walters, VIII on a plea OF ma
beas corpus may secure his liberty
from jail and then he will skip.
This is about the only alternative
left him. He may not lack the means
of assistance and comforts, which is
too frequently given by the
thoughtless and the over syrnpa-
thetic in what we say the wrong
direction.