The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-06-18
WALTERS Will Be
Returned TO
LOUISIANA
GOVERNOR BREWER ANNOUNCED
LAST NIGHT He WILL HONOR
REouIsITioN.
WILL Ask HABEAs CORPUS
Attorneys Announce Immediately Ar
er Governors Position 10 Made
Known That They VIII Apply for
Writ to Secure Clients Release.

jackson, Miss, June 1s.--Goy. Rrew-
er viii honor the requisition for W. Q.
Walters, who Is wanted at Opelousas.
La, ON a charge Of kidnapping Rob
ert Dunbar. son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Q.
Percy Dunbar.
/ This announcement was made By
the Governor at late hour last night
/ after he had given lengthy hearing
to Dale & Rawls of Columbia. Miss.
, attorneys for Walters.
The Governor gave out the follow
ing official statement, through Secre
tary Buck:
'Tn passing upon this application for
requisition l have done SO with great
care and caution, in view OF the fact
that this case presents many peculiar
aspects. In the first place, 1t presents
a case where a man is to be taken. out
of the jurisdiction of this state and rs-
moved far from his witnesses and 10
be delivered for trial in a state where
they have no jurisdiction of his
witnesses and where their attendance
to testify for him can not be compel
led. l therefore refused to grant this
requisition hastily until could give
. the Louisiana authorities ample time
to consider the question well, and. az
practical man, knowing the popular
excitement that attends such matters
all over the country, and as there was
some time to elapse before the court
u would convene where he was to be
0 tried, I could see no harm that could
: come to anyone by reasonable de.
lay.
: There is sharp conflict in the
facts, many good, reputable, disinter
= ested witnesses in this state peint
= willing to swear positively that thu
: man was in Mississippi. and that thf
child is Bruce Anderson, and
Robert Dunbar, but this is a Gu
of fact that think should be de-
by the courts Of Louisiana, and 81
courts of that state, it may be PR
' ed, will give the man a fair and izz51
tial trial.
81 have sufficiently delayed thi
y, matter to give time for the passion
" of the people to subside and for a
~ parties to be heard, and believe tha
,e this question is one that should be
~ = cided by the courts, and not by m
and l therefore grant the requisitio
"All the questions of his guilt or
nocence are matters of fact for Il
court or jury to decide, and which
e do not undertake to decide. For
stance, 1t is contended by his couns
7' that he was not in the state of Lou
eP lana at the time of the commission
the offense This question do n
decide, but simply hold that all qu'
tions involved in 1t as to his gu
or innocence are questions for {
court, and not for the Governor"
az" Messrs. Dale & Rawls annunced
,so' mediately after the Governors sta
ment was given out that they wo'
apply at once for a writ of hab,
'o corpus for the release of Walters. I
eeA attorneys did not indicate the judge
= whom they will apply for the W
n but it is supposed that they eitl
"a win present their case to the Giro
'''' Court, which is now In session at
lumbia. or to the chancery judge
the district in which Columbia Is .
ated. Judge Weathersby is hold
'Tv Circuit Court at Columbia, and the
Ill plication first may be made to hir