The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-28
Guilty Without Capita Punishment" Is Verdict of Jury After Long
 DeliberatiOn
IS EQUIVALENT TO
 LIFE IMPRISONMENT
Counsel of Condemned Tinker Pre- pares to Continue Fight to Higher Courts-The Verdict Legally
 Establishes Identity of
 Robert Dunbar

l opeIousas. La. April 2..-GniIty without capital punishment. was the verdict returned bs the jury here to- day In district court in the trial of W. (. Walters, itinerant tinker. charged with kidnnping 5-ycar-oid Robert Dun bar. under the laws of Louisiann the verdict Is equivalent to life imprison- meat .. | The verdict legally determines the identity of the hoy taken from Wal ters at the time of his arrest and legally clears a mystery that present ed many unusual phases, including the ability of a mother to identify her own son It means that the youth claimed as their son will remain in the home of Mr and Mrs. C. P. Dun bar here where he has been since the arrest of Walters. more than d year ago. and that Julia Anderson. now i'll in New orleans hospital. was mis- taken when she testified at the trial that the hoy was her own.
 Intense Excitement l X single peal from the courthouse bell announced to the populaee of Opelousas late this afternoon that ths jury had reached . verdict after de- Iliberating since II o'clock this morn ing al which time Judge Pavy had concluded the delivery of his charge and the jury had retired. The day had been one of intense excitement here. Sheriff Swords had placed guns in the parish jail, in order to be prepared for any emergency
 The finding of the jury does not end the litigation. Counsel for Walters has announced that il ehe usual mo- tlon for new trial Is overruled thes will appeal to the supreme court of the state.
 Walter was arrested April 20, 1913, nearly eight months after Robert Dun bar disappeared from a fishing camp on the banks of Lake Swayze. At the time of his arrest he was accompanied iby a boy whom Mr and Mrs. c. r. Dunbar had identified as their lost child, sdt who, Walter claimed, was Bruce Anderson, illegitimate son of Julia Anderson He claimed the wom an had entrusted the boy to his care and she later identified him as her son.
 Publicly Received
 Mr. and Mrs C. r. Dunbar returned to Opelousas with the boy after the arrest of Walters. and the town turned out to welcome them. Public receptions and q parade were features of the l home coming.
 Much Doubt Existed
 So much doubt existed as to the iden- | tity Of the boy taken from the tinker that Governor Brewer of Mississippi 1 refused to honor the requisition Of the governor of Louisiana for the re- | turn of Walters to that state until he had held a test. John M. Parker of | New Orleans, appointed by Governor Brewer to. represent him in the inquiry. after hearing the testimony of num- Der of persons ruled that the boy vas | Robert Dunbar.
 l Governor Brewer then honored the | Iequisition I but attorneys for Walters appealed to the supreme court of Mis- | sissippi. which on January 12, 1914, ordered the eXtradition of Walters to Opelousas for trial. The trial began here April g. and for the two weeks that followed held the attention of the people of the two states.