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If you have never bought anything of us, come and give us a trial now and we'll be glad to serve you and make a lasting friend of you, showing you how to get the best goods on the market and at the same time secure a Beautiful Solid Brass Bed Free without one cent extra expended. Special Noticel DRY GOODS GROCERIES All paying weekly accounts Crepes, China Silks, Messolines, Taffetas, Tango Silks, Flowered Silk Don't forget our general and promptly and those with monthly Crepe-the latest thing in fine Dress Goods-Corded Crepe, Laces, matched in complete line of Groceries. Every- accounts settling up by the 7th, sets-Ready-made Balkans, Shirt Waists, Middies, and in fact everything thing you want to eat and at the will be entitled to coupons. to satisfy the most exacting and fastidious shopper. right prices, too. BURRIS BROTHERS, LTD. - - - - Franklinton, Louisiana. Hub and examine the little wan- sippi, was not sure of the identi- whipped. SUPPLEMENT derer. The day following Mr. fication and decided to withhold Sensational evidence was Walters Guilty As Charged, Dunbar went to Hub and was so action on the apolication for the given by Dr. IR.G. Hawkins, of Ibe traIleaber. well satisfied that the boy was requisition of Walters by the Palmetto, La., who said he found his Bobbie, that te caused the Louisiana authorities, until the footprints of a man and a boy PUBLISHED WEEKLY. arrest of the man Walters. child recognized his playmates, between Swayze lake and his Mrs. J. VOL BROCK, Editor. Without Capital Punishment The child was very dirty and was recognized by his family and home. Five witnesses, four from unkempt at this time. It had on gave other unmistakabli evi- McComb, Miss., and the fifth Prankllnton, La., April 30, 1914 a dirty, little greenish-blue dress dences of being Bobbie. from Liberty, Miss,, swore they What Is Considered as Possibly the Most Noted Criminal so covered with grease and filth On April 80, the other mother, saw Walters and the boy at Mc- of Mexico. that it was stiff. Its legs and Julia Anderson, was brought to Comb City December 18, 1912; The City Prosecution in the History of Our State Was Con- By George Fitch. arms were scaly with dirt and it Opelousas for a test. The illiter- that the child said his name was cluded at Opelousas on Monday, When the Verdict was as wild as a fawn and seem- ate North Carolina domestic fail- Bobbie and that the tinker ex- The City of Mexico, capital of Was Handed in Against W. C. Walters For the ingly afraid to talk or recognize ed utterly to recognize the child. hibited a postal card with a pic- the upper floor of Hades for the Kidnapding of Little Bobbie Dunbar. Mr. Dunbar. Nevertheless Mr. Half a dozen childreni were placed ture of Bobbie and the reward. last two years, is located in the Dunbar was sure the boy was in a room and she was told to They said Walters posed as a pick Bruce. After several at- secret country for which it is named, so The almost epochal event on ]Rouge parish, whose sympathies his own. service man and said he tempts she gave up the test, ex- was far inland that escape is very which this celebrated ease has its Ihad been aroused, though he was To make assurance doubly sure taking the boy back to Ope- claiming. "Gentlemen, I just lousas to claim difficult indeed. origin happened on August 23,1 unacquainted with the Dunbars, he telegraphed to Mrs. Dunbar the reward. W. kaint be sure." Mexico is the most difficult 1912, while the Dunbar family coffered $500 reward. Friends of to come to West Columbia, where O, Stogner said Walters was at city in the world to live in owing and a number of their friends ithe Dunbars employed detectives the child had been left in the During the test she had said his hume in Tylertown, Miss., three in to the fact that it frequently at- and associates were enjoying ai and a private fund of several possession of Jeff Wallace, a one- separate children strongly April, 1913, and admitted he resembled was tains a velocity of several revo- country outing in a fishing camp Ithousand dollars was raised. armed deputy sheriff of Marion her lost boy. One in St, Landry parish in lutions a year. Even when it is near Swayzee lake, about 12 Opelousas was in sackcloth county, Miss., after Walters had was about 8 years old and white August, 1912, but denied com- quiescent, however, it is one of milest from Opelousas. and ashes for days, and during been arrested and taken to Co- headed; the second was less than plicity in the kidnapping. the intresting cities of America. Friday, the fateful 23rd, shortly tthe search business was suspend. lumbia. Mr. Dunbar went to four and had darker hair, and The state traced Walters by New Orleans to meet his wife, the third was various witnesses Those United States cities which before noon John Oge, a big, Eed, while huudreds called on the younger than Bob- thru Louisi- bie feel old and privileged because whole-souled, planter living near fstricken mother and father to and on the night of April 21 Mrs. and had different colored ana and established his presence Dunbar arrived with her hus- hair. When Robbie was finally in Opelousas and Lake Swayze things happened in them during Sunset( challanged Wallace Dun- offer( their sympathy. From all band at West Columbia and was brought in the seventeenth century should bar,k a cousin of the little boy to Iparts of the state and the south she had to acknowl- vacinity. met by sheriff Stanley J. Hathorn edge she wasn't sure. The prosecution read Mexico's history with'some a8 fishing contest. Bobbie was came( letters of sympathy and then estab- at May care. It has been a civilized thoughtt to be among the children rmany contained clews of the boy, the train. The excitement in 1, when the boy was lished its alibi and argument in the brought city, so to speak, since 1521. playing by the side of the lake cor suggestions as to how to find village was intense. Scopes to her alone she identi- the case was started Saturday of armed farmers had come from But before that, it was a vast and his absence was not noted Ihim. fied him at once and wept be- afternoon continuing till mid- various districts hearing of the city of 800,000, built of stone, until the dinner horn was sound- One clew came which looked as cause she could not take him night when adjournment was capture of Walters, and the feel- back to North and situated in the middle of a ed and Bobbie failed to respond. tthough it had a basis. A mu- Carolina with her. had till Monday morning, at ing against the prisoner was She said Bruce Anderson had which time District Attorney great lake. This lake was cross- Forthwith the fishermen of the 1latto woman had been seen, Sep- running high. Before leaving no scars like Bruce Anderson Garland concluded the argument ed by a single bridge, which party organized themselves into tember 2, at dusk, near the Baton the train Mr. Dunbar cautioned had no scars like the Dunbar and the case went to the made it very discouraging for boy hunters. Part of them drag. iRouge ferry, dragging an unwill- jury at his wife against an identitication boy, but the photos resembled 11:07 o'clock. rivals who attempted to march ging the lake and killing 'gators,' ing child towards the Valley de. of the child, as he said he did her child. Vote first stood three into town and burn the city hall. while the others parcelled off the Ipot. The cnild answered, in for not want the wrong man hung. "In my heart, 1 know it's hanging and nine for life impris- When this was finally accom- marsh and canebrake so as to beat Imany respects the description of He feared Walters would be Bruce," was all she would say. onment and only after plished by Cortez in 1519, how- it down. the Dunbar boy, but for some five hours lynched. This same feeling was They also said they could prove deliberation did they agree on ever, he not only burned the city Hours were spent in this search Ireason the woman was not de- expressed by Sheriff Hathyrn by letters, a money order re- "guilty without capital punish- and tore down the temple which with no avail. Dark came and Itained and she and the boy dis- and others at West Columbia.

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