Walter M. Scott was born in July 1873 to George and Mary Scott in Barre, Massachusetts. He had brown hair, blue eyes, and was just shy of 5’7”. He was a Protestant.
He married Edna Smith on October 8, 1891, and they settled in Worcester. He worked as a hostler there until his incarceration at the Massachusetts Reformatory on December 16, 1891. He died there from marasmus caused by the flu on May 18, 1892, at 18.
According to his record, he was unknown in Worcester where he was arrested, and even his wife was unaware of his past; he claimed to have “been in all the states in the Union.”
