The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-09-07
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the expulsion order was issued by the
board of trustees One night he
broke into the girls dormitory, and
he has reached the age where he is
really dangerous. Instead Of being
only fourteen years old. as stated in
the papers, he is seventeen or eigh.
teen. He was sent here during the
summer months from one OF the coun-
ties In South Mississippi where he
had been taken from negro family.
His mother had left him with these
negroes, and we soon found that he
was thoroughly bad, would not sub
init to discipline of any sort, and it
became necessary to send him away"
The boys mother is now in a hos
pital at Natchez. She is unable to
provide for the youngster, and is also
quite anxious to have him again ad-
mitted to the institution for the deaf
and dumb, but Mississippi statutes
will not permit this to be done, even
| - INC outhoiiticS WcTS WnliuR.
Natchez, however, holds out some
little hope for the boy. This dispatch
was received from there today:
/ Officials of Chicago will send Mar
Gus Walker. mute boy, of banana car
fame for whom national search for
parents was made, to Trout, La, to
his grandmother, at the request of
his mother, Mrs. Ella Powell, discoy.
cred here.
Marcus is tired of travelling, accord.
ing to the following dispatch to The
News from Chicago:
Over in the Juvenile detention home
lat III Gilpin place is a youngster who
moves about through the wards with
,out uttering word. Occasionally he
smiles. He never laughs. His wide
eyes take in everything, but the i'm
pressions recorded in his quick mind
remain a secret with him.
He is Marcus Walker, IA years old.
and he has been deaf and dumb
from birth. His mother. brother and
sister arem utes, and his father, now
dead, was similarly afflicted.
But the fact that he can never hear
nor speak didn't prevent Marcus from
telling his story to Juvenile Court OF.
ficer Moss, and what he didn't tell Mr..
Moss he told Edward M. Rowse of
l5656 Calumet avenue, formerly his
teacher in the Mississippi school for
the Deaf at Jackson, Miss. Part of
his story he spelled on his fingers and
part of it he wrote and this is the
way it ran:
Il left my home in Hattiesburg.
Miss, several weeks ago. My father
is dead, my stepfather was bad to me,
and l didn't like to live at home. One
day l climbed into a coal car in the
railroad yards at Hattiesburg. When
the train stopped they told me was
in Chicago and policeman found me
and gave me something to eat"
Mr.. Rowse read in a newspaper of
his former pupils arrest and called at
the Juveline Court to see him. The
recognition was mutual.
1t is probable that Marcus will be
sent back to Mississippi. I'm tired
travelling he says.
/ Located in Natchez.
Natchez, Miss, Sept. THE par
ents of Marcus Walker, the 14-year-
old deaf mute who is held in Chicago
on vagrancy charge for stealing
ride on a banana train have been To-
Gated In Natchez. The boy was &C
cidentally locked in and subsisted en-
tirely on banans. On arrival he was
nearly famished for water. The Ma
tional Society of Mutes in Chicago in
terested themselves in the boys case
an instituted search for his parents.
1t has been learned that Robert
Powell, father of the starving family
that arrived in Natchez about two
weeks ago after having walked nearly
200 miles, is the Walker boys step
father. The boy ran away from his
home near Beaumont few days be-
fore Powell and his wife and children
set out ito walk until they died"
Powell, with one of his children is at
the Natchez Hospital for treatment,
says that fruitless search was made
in Hattiesburg for the runaway and
that from there they came on to Nat
chez. He is apparently indifferent
whether the boy is returned or not
except on his wife's account as he
says the boy has caused him much
trouble and at one time tried to kill
him and his mother. If the boy is
sent here from Chicago Powell says
that he will send him to his grand
mother in Louisiana.
| Powell's wife, the mother of the
Walker boy, has had much trouble.