COLD BLOODED CRIMES.
NEW YORK, Feb. 20. A message from Detroit states that -he arrest to-day of James Baker, aged 25, revealed a number of murders. Baker poisoned eight persons in various cities of the world, from New York to Bombay, Manila and Hamburg, and shot and killed his stepfather. He had worked at every trade, from sailor and farm hand to an assistant in a chemical laboratory. When caught he had enough poison in his room to destroy a thousand persons. The crime which resulted in his undoing was of forcing poison down the throat of a night-watchman in a New York building, in 1928. He had been sought by detectives, ever since. Baker confessed that he did not kill for revenge or anger, although he said that he had quarrelled with his stepfather. “1 killed to watch the effect of the poison. Anyone who was around when the impulse seized me would die.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 74, 22 February 1930, Page 9
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