Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-12-12
IS IT A CONFESSION?


"Hr Editor, Wtolmg Register:
! want TO tell You and your readers some
something ab1u. the Baker murder IS he is now
in the penitenusiy Baker did not do IT, My
seiTa- two other men done IT, We went and
rented lot and saw they had money then
went back in the evening and saw the women
there alone and I went 70 the back door and
oockei aud while I was there the other two
broke in a front shutter and got in for we saw
The window WAS up We seen both women begin
tounlress one took her shoes and Stockings tf
and the other one her false hair and corset and
shoes and put ON pair OF carpet slippers The
woman opened The front door and then Is when
the two went in the room aud the woman
screamed and wcs struk with an iron bolt and
nocked down pushed the door open and rushed
ia and shut the door.
"The woman run in front room and picked up
her shoes and STATED TO run out and was nocked
down by same man with bolt ilst ss She got I'm
Che kitchen. Both womea screamed but the
inst one he most The same man then hit her
SIX or seven times aud killed her The Othsr
woman was hit SIX o. seveu times and killed
We heard q noise outside ard looked and seen
some men out by The stable We quickly an OF
MS blinded the kitcnen windows with several
thir gs and also pulled down the ont blinds AID
carried women into front room and then wait-d
[ tul we saw the men 30 away
81 seen an AK hy the side Of a shed and went
on. and got It andh,oke open TWO trunks aud
| I'm one found $50 dollars in bills and dollars
and "a cents in coins and little piece Of gold
I Ia The buro We got dollar and cents and in a
pocket book i'm clothes Irsss we got l59 dollars
and 60 cents We dii not see any watches.
I'VE took three SHIFTS two white and one wool
one and found a fine opera glass and / took
out of The trunk an odd stone like a worm or
bug. We found nothing of value any other
laco
"The man who killed them got his shirt
bloody and he burnt IL i'm the stove using some
little wood aud paper that was in box The AK
was no, used only the bolt and # they dig the
women mp ana let doctors see them you will see
| the do.tors lied aud I am telling what is true
We took the shoes the women hal I'm her hands
and put them under bed after We had looked
| In them for money for she held on to them so
tightly We thought she had her money or dia-
monds in there Weumdressei them and looked
/ for money u their clothes but found none Both
women had night caps on and when the one
started 90 run out he grabbed her 10y the head
/ and her Gao pulled back but not OF but the
string broke on the other one and &c come OIL
and wc pulled them back o. sgain We found "A
mbof water in the K tchen and carried it into
the room and washed and wiped on the Dire SEES
aud ihrowd everything into the tub OF water We
/ found an envelope i'm trunk with some kind OF
no. Is I'm and when We went ont we went back
to stable and throwd them in there In the bScK
/ sail and we also throwd 1 dollar bill snd some
silver change IN the mangsr That man who
swore ne found them pspeIs out in the orchard
/ lied or else somebody took them and put them
there When we were at the stable dog kept
barkiu and somebody called him in the house on
/ the other side ct the lot We went back be- the
house and ont the side gate aud on up the road
above the station sud there Jumped on a
freight tain and wen, to Pittsburgh and the
other TWO men went their own way The man
who struck the bilws got KILLED in railroad
wreck about yesr ago.
1.-TWO Of rs are living yet and are both TO-
gslher
we srs sorry Tor Baker Tor he Is innocen,