POISONER ARRESTED.
COLD-BLOODED CRIMINAL.
LONG WANTED IN AMERICA
(Received February 21, 10.35 p.m.)
NEW YORK
Feb. 20
A message from Detroit says the arrest there to-day of James Baker, aged 25. has revealed one of the strangest and craftiest murders by a man who had poisoned eight persons in cold blood in various cities of the world, from New York to Bombay, Manila and Hamburg, and who had shot and killed his stepfather.
Baker bad worked at every trade, from sailor and farm labourer to assistant in a chemical laboratory. When caught he had enough poison in his room to destroy IGCO persons. The crime which resulted in his undoing was that of forcing a deadly poison down the throat of a night watchman in a New York building in 1928. He had been sought, for by detectives ever since. He has confessed that he did not kill for revenge or anger although he said he, had quarrelled with his stepfather. " I killed to watch the effects of poison, ' he said. " Anyone who was near when the impulse seized me would die."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20496, 22 February 1930, Page 11
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