GRIME IN AMERICA
A CHEMIST POISONED POLICE COMMISSIONER SUSPECTED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, December 28. Under special orders from the Governor and the new Police Commissioner, James Baker, is being sought on suspicion of killing Henry Gaw, a chemist, in the Guggenheim Laboratory, and ' trussing up two truck drivers in a very extraordinary manner. Two beakers containing coffee were discovered on the laboratory table. Both contained cyanide of potassium. One beaker was lull, and the other was half emptied. Gnw was dead, with cyanide burns in his month and throat. Baker, who is half English and half Mexican, constantly used strongly-scented cold cream, which was smeared round Gaw’s face.—United Service.
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Evening Star, Issue 20062, 31 December 1928, Page 5
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111GRIME IN AMERICA Evening Star, Issue 20062, 31 December 1928, Page 5
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