Bobby Dunbar was the name of a 4 year old child who disappeared while on a fishing trip near Swayze Lake in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, on August 23, 1912. After an eight-month nationwide search, investigators believed that they had found the child in the hands of William Cantwell Walters of Mississippi. Lessie and Percy Dunbar identified the boy as their son, Bobby Dunbar, though press accounts differed on how sure they really were.

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  • Bobby Dunbar was the name of a 4 year old child who disappeared while on a fishing trip near Swayze Lake in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, on August 23, 1912. After an eight-month nationwide search, investigators believed that they had found the child in the hands of William Cantwell Walters of Mississippi. Lessie and Percy Dunbar identified the boy as their son, Bobby Dunbar, though press accounts differed on how sure they really were. Walters was charged with kidnapping and later convicted, though he was granted an appeal for a new trial, which the city, out of concern for the cost, declined to undertake. The return of the Dunbar child was celebrated by the press and with a local parade. At the same time, a woman named Julia Anderson was claiming that the boy was not Bobby Dunbar, but was in fact her own son, Charles/Charlie Bruce Anderson, whom Walters had taken with him, with her permission, on his tinkering journey. The press declared Miss Anderson to be a woman of loose morals and untrustworthy, and a court turned down her claim, awarding custody to the Dunbars.
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  • Bobby Dunbar was the name of a 4 year old child who disappeared while on a fishing trip near Swayze Lake in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, on August 23, 1912. After an eight-month nationwide search, investigators believed that they had found the child in the hands of William Cantwell Walters of Mississippi. Lessie and Percy Dunbar identified the boy as their son, Bobby Dunbar, though press accounts differed on how sure they really were.
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  • Bobby Dunbar
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