James Giddings, the deputy sheriff of Boscawen, New Hampshire, issued a reward for Walter’s arrest:
“Transient person,calling himself Laman Walter, [who] has for several days past been imposing himself upon the credulity of the people in this vicinity by a pretended knowledge of magic, palmistry and conjuration….”
“Transient person,calling himself Laman Walter, [who] has for several days past been imposing himself upon the credulity of the people in this vicinity by a pretended knowledge of magic, palmistry and conjuration….”