Walter Palmer Improperly Approached a Minor
- Title of event
- Walter Palmer Improperly Approached a Minor
- Type of event
- Sodomy
- Address of event
- Walter Palmer Improperly Approached a Minor Happened Entirely at 115, W 135th St
- Report on event
- Walter Palmer Improperly Approached a Minor Sole event referenced by Guilty of Impairing Morals of a Minor
- Start date / time
- October 18, 1925
- Start (general time of day)
- Day (Afternoon)
- Description
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Noticing a large gathering, a police officer approached the gathering and discovered that James Thornton, a boy of ten, was trying to free himself from Walter Palmer, a man of forty six. The boy and his father both accused Palmer of having tried to approach the child in an improper manner. Apparently Palmer was intoxicated at the time.