Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
MOTHERFIGHTS
ANDSUFFERSTO
GAIN LOST BOY
Mrs. Julia Anderson Working Her
Way From South Carolina to
Columbus, Miss.
LAYS CLAIM TO KIDNAPPED SON
Found in Destitute Condition at
Depot in Savannah, Where
She Had Been Two Days.

SAVANNAH, Sept 90.-With lines
Of grief about her mouth and eyes.
Julia Anderson, OF Barneswell, S. c.
who claims to be the natural mother
Of the little boy now held as Robert.
the son Of Mr. and Mrs. c. =. Dun
Ea.. of Opelousas, La, whose kidnap-
ing and alleged recovery was the SEN
cation Of the hour when Il occurred,
has been found in a destitute Condi-
ton in Savannah, on her way to Co
lumbus, Miss. where she expects to
participate in the fight for the pos
session Of the little boy as star
witness and one of the principal par
Elephants when w c Walters, now
held in jail on the kidnapping charge,
IS brought to trial in December
According 10 the woman, Walters,
who is a peddler, kidnapped her little
boy Bruce Anderson at GAINESVILLE,
in February. 1912, seven months be-
fore the kidnapping Of the Dunbar
child Walters is being prosecuted 10y
the Dunbars, who allege it was their
little boy whom he kidnapped. The
child is now In the possession OF the
Dunhars, and is claimed by both them
and the Anderson woman.
Without Funds.
Mrs. Anderson came to Savannah
from Wilmington. n. c. She left VIII
mington with but a few cents above
her railroad fare to Savannah She
was then under the impression that
the case against walters was to have
been called for immediate trial When
she arrived in Savannah she was
wholly without funds. For two days
and nights she remained at the Union
Station, without eating or sleeping.
Too proud to tell her story the wom
an did NOT know which way to turn
for advice or help. She was practi-
cally in a starving condition when
her plight was finally discovered.
The evident distress of the stranger
finally attracted the attention of the
matron at the station and the police
officer on duty there They inquired
into the cause of her appearance Of
worry, and. breaking down, the wom
IN sobbed forth the story of her pit
fable plight and of her desire to be up
and moving onward toward the scens
Of the impending battle for the Gus
tody Of the little boy,
Associated Charities Help.
Touched by the story Of the woman
and convinced OF her evident SINGER
ity the station officials directed Mrs
Anderson to the Associated Charities,
where she was provided with food and
shelter and where arrangements were
finally made for funds to send her
little farther on her way. Mrs. An
derson has gone from here to Jesup,
where she expects TO secure work II
is her purpose to work her way from
there slowly across the State as fast
as she can accumulate enough money
fag fg q "a ia
Their on, ultimately reaching her des-
tination in time to testify at the trial
Of Walters that the child claimed by
the Dunbars as their child is her own
baby
The fate OF the Dunbar child Is
strangely interviewer with the disap-
pearance Of her own child. and she
says the boy taken from the peddler,
Walters, and identified later as Robert
Dunbar is her hoy, Bruce.
My little boy, Bruce isappeared
IN February about the first of the
menth. last year At the time | was
Gazing for the father and mother OF
this man. W. c. Walters at Barnes
VILE The parents Of Walters are
both over so years of age. Walters is
a peddler, hut when ! was there he
was AT home lie took a great fancy
10 my little hoy. The little fellow
seemed ~ love Walters, too
Walters Takes Bow Awav
"Tn early February Walters took
p,.ure ana went Nm The home If his
sister gt aTayhoro : g There came
. heavy enowstnrm which hound I'm
IN +ha roads walters tererra r,he,I 10
mo and fban wrote a Iettar eavirr
mar ID soon as me roa5e we're rIaare5
and oneped he u-o,,Id retrrn bringing
nv little how back win him That
v-as Inc last ever heard of Walters