St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1914-07-04

} every law enacted by the Genera
Assembly shall embrace but one OBJ
ject and that that object shall be ex
pressed in it's title.
! Following the excitement due tt
the Lamana outrage the 1910 legis
lature passed Act 271, under which
j Walters was indicted, convicted anl
sentenced. At that time an act ol
the 1905 legislature, providing .
twenty-year penalty was the law. Il
had succeeded, in 1905, an act Of
1870 which provided q twelve-yea1
penalty for kidnapping.
This is where the inadyertent leg
islative joker. which may save Wal
ters from life Imprisonment, got into
the record. Instead Of amending the
law in force in 1910, which was the
twenty-year law of 1905, the legis-
lature amended the twelve-year law
of 1870 which had been wiped out OF
existence. In doing this the so1ons
also wiped out all existing laws in
Louisiana pertaining to the kidnap-
ing of male child under fourteen
years of age, the defense contends.
Walters Sure He
Would BE Freed.
Walters advanced leisurely to the
grating of the big iron door of his
apartment in the parish prison when
a reporter for the Daily States called
him to break the glad tidings.
When told the Supreme Court had
ordered his release, the famous pris-
0ner showed no outward indication
of being affected. He merely smiled,
and remaining self-composed, said
cOolly:
'.Why, / am glad to hear it, but /
expected nothing else. was always
confident that l would be vindicat-
ed.' @
Asked as to his plans for the fu-s
ture, Walters said:
II really don't know what l will
do now. It they turn me out at this
time will face a very cold world in:
deed, for I have only. nickel and
that belongs to the ice man, for he
trusted me with q nrkeps worth OF
ice yesterday.
''If the promoter. Of some public
hall or the proprietor Of some
picture show believes it will bring
him fair returns to- have me talk
about my life and the Dunbar case,
I will gladly enter into an agreement
with him. I think it will interest
thousands of persons to know some
thing of the history of this case.
Walters eagerly asked that some
thing be said about his distress.
please say in your paper" he
said. that have not a penny In the
world now If some kind persons
will help me out for my immediate
needs, however, / will reimburse
them, for the people of my State
sre now getting up a fund for me.
As to the child, sBobbie,' wal
ters is confident Of ultimately COM
.ng INTO possession of him. He says
the Dunbars will sooner or later real
ize that it is not their son and give
him back.
eff they are reasonable with me
/ will be reasonable with them, but
II they want to fight me still why |
propose fighting them for the posses
sion of the boy. They tried to have
me murdered by trying to prove that
| kidnapped the boy, and If they had
in having the extreme pen
atty pronounced on me they would
have been my murderers. But will |
forgive them if they return my boy
% me"
Arrested II
Months Ago.
Fourteen months ago Walters was
at Hub, Miss. A boy with |
1im was believed to be Bobbie Dun |
oar who disappeared from Swayze !
Lake, near Opelousas, in August,
1912. The Dunbars identified the
10y and although the tinker MAIN
aimed the boy was Bruce Anderson |
le was brought to Louisiana and
ried.
After a sensational trial in which
wo mothers and two communities
ook opposing sides Walters was
ound guilty and on recommendation
for mercy was sentenced to life inn
,risonment. His attorneys, T. S.
)ale, Hollis Rawls and E. B. Dubuis-
on Immediately filed notice of APP
zeal on the unconstitutionality point
md on charges OF unfairness.