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naping in OpeIousas and the 9th
or claims he had made Walters
had asked Mr.. Dale to prepare Il
writ Of habeaS corpus to be pro
sented TO Chancellor Il. f. Shrchy,
but Mr.. Dale said that he would
not prepare if or have anything -
do with the ease unless Walters
could prove he had told the truth.
There was much excitement Tor
while early in the afternoon
over a report that Walters in
tended TO take legal steps TO pre-.
vent Mr.. and Mrs. Dunbar takino
the boy back TO Opelousas tomor-
row, but it was explained that no
such thing was possible, and the
discussion ceased. Threats wera
made that there would I've trouble
If sreh a thing was attempted, as
the people wouldn t allow ans,
interference with the Dunhars
plans.
| Arrangements were made late
this afternoon for the bringing
Of NJ T. and Mrs. Jeptha Bilho OF
Poplarvile to Columbia TO ident-
ifN the prisoner and see if they
could substantiate his claim tina:
he had the child at the Bilbo
house in Poplarvile during the
thirty days that he was in the
Charity Hospital in 1912. Wal
ters claims that he had the child
with him at that time. and whe':
he went to the Charity Hospital
he told Mrs. Bilbo that she could
have the child if anything han
pened to him and he did not re-
cover. There are those who say
that Walters is mistaken in his
dates. and that he did not 90 to
New Orleans in July. but that i.
was in August. Others saw that
the Dunbar child was not with
him, but that it was another
child, which had dark brown
hair and blue eyes and was much
thinner than the Dunbar boy.
Called self Rogers Then.
j. j. Amacker, timber mau
who lives about seven miles from
PoplarNille, said Tuesday that the
man and boy had been to his
house about the last Of Septem-
/ Der. The boy remained a week at
the Amacker house, and Mr.
Amacker was of the impression
that this was directly after Wal
ters left the Bilho house. Mr..
Amac'ler says that Walters told
him his name was Rogers. Ha
called the child "Son." whereas
when he was at the Bilbo house
he called the child "Bruce. "
Bruce is the name by which Wal
ters or Rogers refers to the baby
row whenever he speaks Of him.
Dir. J. w. Bozeman of Pearl
River county, Miss. gave some
important information tonight,
which contradicts the statements
of Walters and places his visit to
the Charity Hospital several
months earlier han.july. II also
destroys the major part of the
Walters alibi about his rip from
Norh Carolina in 1912.
I'm his statement. Walters claim
ed that he first had gotten posses
sion of the baby in December,
1911. at Barnsville, n. c.. and that
in February, 1912, the child's
mother, Julia Anderson, gave him
to take the child. In March he
started with his tram, he said,
from Savannah and went to Ar
gusta.
DR.. Bozeman said tonight that
he saw Walters around Pearl riy-
err, i'm the territory between Mon
ticella and Brookhavon, far sew
eral months in the spring Of 1912,
when Walters claims he was in
North Carolina in the latter part
Of March. when Walters says he
was in Georgia and F.orils, Br
Bozeman saws that he operated
upon the old man at Pearl river,
removing from his kneecap pieea
of silver wire he said had teea
left there after an operation req
formed several months nre, lore
at the Charity Hospital in New
Orleans. For some weeks after
this operation. Dir. Bozeman said
that Waters was around Pearl
river and he had no child with
him at any time
Walters was asked this evening
about his trip to the Charity Hos
pital. He protested that he did
90 there in Julu 1912, and that
he went from Carriere to New
Orleans. He remembered the
time on account of having bought
some new conndurov trousers at
Carriere Just before leaving, and
hacanse he left the hoy NJ the