St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-08-23
Communications.
Editor ST. LANDRY Clarion,

seThat mystery still turks il
the Dunbar Walters kidnapping
at least for C. P. Dunbar, father
OF the boy, whose disappearance
stirred three states, is apparent
from the correspondence in Sc
eret code now going on between
Dunbar in Opelousas and a mys.
FERROUS person in New Orleans
signing himself "Well-W isher. .
The States makes the announce.
ment that the cryptogram expert
of The States found the solution
on the mysterious note, and the
one of most recent issue is here
deciphered for the people of New
Orleans"
The notes is taken from the
CLASSIFIED columns of the Item"
The States makes the note to
WeIl-W isher read thus:
Opelousas, La, July %, 1913.
Dear Sir
I will be in New Orleans on
August 9th and 7th, at the Cos
mopoIitan Hotel, and will be
glad to meet you if possible.
What passes between us will be
strictly confidential, for my only
object in going further into this
matter is to show a lot of people
what fools they are. If you can
meet me, write me here as soon
as you see this.
Yours truly
C. P. DUNBAR.
Mr.. Dunbar wrote the above
under my direction. I could not
conceive how a great daily could
have meddled in the case of so
dastardly a crime as the kidnap-
ing Of the Dunbar child, who was
at that time 4years and A months
old. I wrote Colonel Robert
Ewing some time in the early
part of August to find out why
this letter in cypher Of Mr.. Dun
bars should have been given to
the public, but up to this time he
has not seen fit to reply. If his
paper had been so much interest
ed in the welfare of the mothers
of this land as are the people of
the three states that this affair
has stirred" it certainly
would have done something to
aid us in ferreting out a crime
that is almost infamous and das-
tardly as the kidnapping; but The
States seems to have been the
medium through which the inter-
view between Well Wisher and
Mfr. Dunbar was to take place on
the 7th at the Cosmopolitan.
This. it seems to me, tended to
thwart the end of justice by
throwing obstacles in the way Of
the officers of the law.
Well-W isher wrote Mr.. Dun
bar that he would meet him at
the Cosmopolitan on the 7th at
10 a. m, and stated in that per-
sonai letter that HI. and Ell. had
written Mr.. Dunbar that Well
Wisher would never reach the
hotel alive. The personal letter
De III. and Fl. was wired by Mr..
Dunbar to the Item as a warning
TO Well isher, for who can
doubt that the infamous scound-
Feis that would kidnap a child or
be concerned therein would hest
tate for a moment to take life. if
they could do so stealthily?
MIR. Dunbar went to tho Cos
mopolitan and registed and was
to room No. BOT. This
was the only thing he could do.
This was about $50 in the morn
Between that time and the
hour of 10 the reporters Of the
newspapers were conspicuous by
their absence, with the exception
Of a reporter of the States, whom
| am told and believe to be Mr..
risdale. Mr.. Arthur, of the
came in and spoke to me-
md VIZ. Charles Thibodeaux,
who were at that time in the
obby Of the Cosmopolitan, and
landed me a letter to give to Mr..
He told me to read it
handing it to Mr.. Dunbar.
read it and told Mr.. Thibodeaux
o keep a close eye on everyone
'ntering the lobby, and took this
etter to Mr.. Dunbar. That
however, had no import
bearing on the case. (
"a special delivery letter was
emf to G. P. Dunbar, Room No. !,
or. This letter was brought bv
messenger from the postoffice.
his messenger was a trusted !
IAN. and came on a motorcycle.
lie delivered it to the hotel man. |
ger at the desk and got his re- t
eipt and left. The letter was |
emit by a bellboy to deliver it to-
Ir. Dunbar in person. The boy.
ssures me that no neinterrupt- b
4 him until he placed it in the o
ands of Mr.. Dunbar. | can :
wear that no one in the lobby :
. in the hall stopped him until p
= got into the elevator. This 81
,ecial delivery letter was stamp .,
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