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Show WINTERS GIRL IN MANSAS I Wanders for Year With Man Who Claims to Be Her Father. Iluntsvillc. Ark.. Feb. 23. Edward Stewart, held hero as tho kidnaper of Catherine Winters, the 10-year-old daughter or Dr. W. A. Winters or Newcastle, Ind., nenrly n yoar ago, persisted yesterday In his claim that the girl was his own child. He is said to have Lold the officers that the girl was Catherine Winters, and that she had been taken from an orphan asylum hnd given to him; that he was married to Mrs. Winters and that she divorced him and max ried tho Indiana dentist, keeping the child. While Stuart, who Is In jail, was tolling the story of his wanderings, with the child through many states, Sheriff Sinister was hurrying with the girl over mountain roads to Spring dale, Ark., to meet a relative of Dr. Vinters who is on his way to identify tho girl. Dr. Winters was expected to arrive yesterday but missed his train in St. Louis. , Stuart's statements were conflicting. conflict-ing. After declaring he was wedded to Mrs. Winters before she and STr. Winters were married, ho said he wedded her after 3hc was divorced from the dentist. Stuart said the child's mother died In a "Llttlo Rock hospital and that the child was taken by his friend from a Little Rock orphan's home." The girl today repeated her story that sho was picked up from the street and tossed Into an automobile which conveyed her to tho wagon in which sho was found with Stewart. Pictures printed in a Fort Smith, Ark., newspaper which reached this mountain hamlet several days old led to the detention of the man and girl traveling in a wagon with the child dressed as a bov and her hair "bobb-. ed." |