Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-05-26
TUE lIL4RREN MURDER.


The Rockland Free Press gives full partic-
ulars of the affair at Warren and as it differs
in some important particulars from the tele-
graphic reports, we give the main portion Of
its account. According to the Free Press DR..
Baker was formerly practising ply stefan in
Thomaston for some years, where he married
a servant girl named McCalum, out of no.
tel. 1t is stated that they did not live hap
PLY, and that he treated his wife cruelty
She died few years since leaving boy, who
is now living with the Doctors father at
lIaverhill, New Hampshire. The Doctor was
at one time Physician to the State Prison, but
| was discharged by the present Warden soon
after he assumed the wardenship. While the
Doctor kept house in Thomaston, a girl
named Lucy A. Mink lived in his family, and
it has long been commonly reported that he
was crlminally intimate with her, as we'll as
with other persons. He was for while out
of the State, and Miss Mink was also away,
and it will probably appear that she was init.
mate with him during that time, meeting him
at his request or otherwise. The statement
published that he went away to relieve him
self of her presence, is doubtful A few
months since he returned to this State, and
purchased house in Warren, where he kept
housekeeper, though he had no family 1t
is said his housekeeper did not lodge in hi.
house.
On the west side of Georges River, about
a mile south of Warren village, lived Warren
Mink, brother of Lucy A. Mink He hav-
ing been divorced from his wife, his sister
Lucy lived with him as housekeeper. Their
mother, smart old lady, also made her home
with them portion of the time, and Warren
Mink had two boys about ten or twelve years
old.
On the fatal night of the murder, the moth.
er and Warren Mink were absent from home,
and Lucy Ann and the two boys were the
only inmates ofthe house, as is supposed up
on retiring to rest. The boys slept in bed.
room opening from the kitchen in the L of the
house, and Lucy in front room up one flight
| of stairs. She says she retired before eight
o'clock and went to sleep, and probably about
nine o'clock-she could not say whether be-
fore or atter-Dr. Baker came, and she got
| up and let him in She is rather reticent as
to what followed, but has admitted that the
Doctor got into bed with her. The proceed
ings thus far related are without dispute.
but beyond is mystery.
About ten o'clock on the night Of the MUIR
der, the family of Alexander Spear, who live
some thirty or forty rods from Warren Mink's,
on the road south, were startled By screams
Of terror uttered outside their house They
went out, and discovered in their door yard,
Lucy MINK, lying upon the ground, barefoot,
and in her night clothes, laboring under great
excitement, and exhaustion. Mrs. Spear went
to her and asked her what was the matter.
when she replied, somebody fired into nv
room )" She appeared frightened. Upon be-
ing taken into the house she said she was shot,
indicating the place by pressing her hands to
her breast. She said DR.. Baker was in her
room. Repeated enquiries elected a repeti- |
.ioh OF the declaration ''Im shot, I'm shot"
Dnt no further intelligence of the cause Of the
| flight and alarm
some OF Mr. Spears family went TN TO Mr.. |
MINK mouse, to investigate, but finding all
dark and still, concluded the woman was
frightened without cause, and returnad Win
out entering Miss Mink remained at Snear's
through the night. In the morning the men
were up early, as farmers usually are. They
oiu not attach any serious Importance 10 tho !
occurrence of the night before-as Miss MINI
was not herself shot, and it did not occur ~
them that any other person was likely to have
oeen; however some of them having passed
by the house to assist Mr.. Spear in driving
some sheep away, on their return, as thew saw
thought they chad better call and see If thew
were all dead in there, apparently treating the
matter lightly. They went to one of the win
Fdows In the Il, and raped upon it and called.
In response the little Mink boys came to the
door and let them in. Going into the cham
Der, the awful truth was revealed. On the
floor Of the front room, his head near the door
and his limbs extending straight toward the
window opposite, lay the body of DR.. Baker,
CHASTITY and rigid in death, with the blood
which had oozed from his mouth on account
OF internal extravasations clotted upon the
face, and remaining in thickened pool on
mat rug beneath his head.
DIR. Baker lay with the face upward, the
head about eighteen inches from the right
SIDE OF the door, as you entered, the trunk
and lower limbs straight the left arm at the
side, the right one thrown out and bent up
ward from the elbow, the hand partially closed.
his position indicated an instant fall and
painless death. The pistols flash was the last
light his eye took in, its sharp report his sum.
mons to eternity. His apparel had evidently
NJ. hasuiy put on. The pantaloons were
MNl hnttnnnd the stnnl ipe.a -.