ESCAPED IN A COFFIN.
TRICK BY WHICH A MAN TWICE EVADED THE POLICE* Jr— A strange and somewhat gruesome device, by which a man named Baker charged with fraud, succeeded in once evading arrest, and a second time in dodging a summons. On one occasion, when "wanted,"Baker was understood to be at an undertaker's shop, and the officers of the court went there to apprehend him But he could not be found though the place was thoroughly searched. On trestles in the shop was a coffin in which the police were informed there lay a body. In the presence of the officers the coffin was screwed up and taken away to, as was intimated, a public mortuary. A day or so later it was discovered that the supposed dead man in the coffin was no other than Mr. Baker, whose friends had collaborated with him in this way of evading arrest. On a second occasion a judgement summons was to be served. This time a lady at the house said that Mr. Baker was very ill, and could not be seen.
When the officers next called the blinds were all down, and they were told that the defendant had died that morning. Then came a coffin, and the “body"was again removed.
After each of these adventures, Mr. Baker started business in another part.j
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Northland Age, Volume 2, Issue 50, 17 July 1906, Page 8
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