ESCAPED IN A COFFIN.

Lake County Press, Issue 2115, 26 April 1906, Page 7

ESCAPED IN A COFFIN.

TRICK BY WHICH A MAN TWICE EVADED THE DOUCE. 1 i A strange and somewhat gruesome device, by which a man nanu-d Baker j charged with fraud, succeeded in once | : evading arrest, and a second time m : dodging a summons. ; j ()n one occasion, when "wanted,’ linker was understood to be at an shop, and the oflicers ol ; i eonrl went I hei elo apprehend him But he could not be found though ' the place was thoroughly searched. On I rest les ill the shop vv as a eollin 'in which the police were informed i there lav a body. In Ihe presence ol it lie oflicers the eollin was screwed up and taken away In. as was intimal- : ed. a public mot i nary. A day or so biter it vv as discovered ; Oi.it the supposed dead man In tin'eollin was no other than Mr Baker, ; whose friends had eolla bora led with j him in t ids way ot evading arrest. On a second occasion a judgement -■nmmons was to In' served. This inw a lady at the house said that \ir. Baker was very ill, and could ! Ho 1 he seel I. When tlio oflicers next called (he 'blinds wen' all down, and they were told that the def'-ndanl had died that morning Then came a eollin, land the "In >< 1 y 'was again retnov ed. j Alt ■ r each of I hese ,o 1 v cut ures. M;■ linker started business in another i I'urt. I | i