, 1890-10-05
THE MURDER OF BAKER.
A Mystery Deep Almost as the Box
Car Secret.
Strong Circumstantial Evidence
Against Parkison.
He was Perhaps the Last Man
With Baker Alive.
P~arkison, Miller and Wise all Un-
der Arrest.
Baker was Stabbed Near the Heart
Three Days Ago.
Panorama of a Night at Mormon
Rates Place.
The Women Know Something, but
They are Reticent.
Baker was Stabbed Near the Heart
Three Days Ago.
Panorama of a Night at Mormon
Rates Place.
The Women Know Something, but
They are Reticent.

A1 ~ N-N
as the impenetrable secrecy which hedges
about the fate ofFishbruugh and Emmer-
son. At first 1t seemed clear that Miller
and Wise. with at least one of whom he
had trouble about a dame and who threat
ened his life. were responsible for his
death. So far they are free from con-
victicn as several others and the coroner's
jury under the able direction OF the
county attorney worked on the case from
10 o'clock yesterday morning till $50
last evening.
Corporal Parkinson, who was perhaps
the last man seen with Baker while the
latter was still alive. has been arrested
and Is in the county jail here. If he did
the killing he Is a cold-blooded one and
his motive was slight. =
UNIDENTIFIED.
A soldier who cannot be identified IN
any manner and of whom no description
can be secured walked Town from the
fort TO view the body a short time before
it was removed. Obviously be knew of the
murder and went to see if it had yet been
discovered. This trip will make it look
dark for the man if he is found out. To-
morrow testimony will be introduced
which will make Parkinson think he was
perhaps the man who viewed the body on
the quiet if he hears it. He entered the
post stealthily soon after.
THE WOMEN IN IT.
Salt Lake Katc's' joint, the second
house west of the carriage works on
L Rhteenth, seems 70 have been the base
of operations for the crowd mixed up in
the killing. The affections of one of the
girls was cause Of arrangement between
Baker and two or three of his comrades.
The landlady, who is known also as
Mormon Kate" and who was once the
wife OF a soldier. is very r%eticent,
while trying to appear willing.
Her three boarders are not straight takers
and one avoids known facts almost al
together. 1t Is certain that these women
know much more Of circumstances leading
to the killing than they have yet intimated.
They will be given a chance tomorrow to
make statements under oath.
ALSO STABBED.
Baker was stabbed a couple of days
before being murdered. His assailant
made a vicious lunge at his heart Abso-
lutely nothing can be learned of the affray,
but every clue is being followed and the
truth will come out.
MORE MYSTERY
Another strange thing is the disap-
pearance of Bakers revolver, He car
ried a weapon nearly all the time and had
a weakness for flashing it. The revolver
was not on his body. One witness said
Mormon Kate had it. She asserted posi-
lively that a Private Wentworth took the
gun from Baker last Sunday night. Well,
Wentworth was arrested Friday night by
Capt. Smith for raising a big rumpus at
'333." The captain says his prisoner
was unarmed. Wentworth is still in the
city jail.
THE MOTIVE
So far as known now the most none
Baker had at any time Thursday was SIS,
but men have been killed for less. 1t
seems certain that the trouble leading up
to the murder was over a Maude Norton,
a boarder at Salt Lake Hates.
PARKIsoN TALKS.
Psrkison, in testifying before the cor
oner's jury, was entirely composed. talked
unhesitatingly and, after the manner of a
good witness, stuck to his text. Accord
ing to the corporal, Baker left for town
between A and 5 o'clock, He had S.,
and made a date with Parkison, when he
said he would have more money. TLey
met at the gambling house about I and
later at Mormon Hates resort on 1.-THE
line" Miller and Wise were also here at
the time, together with two other soldiers,
but Baker did not join the party, being in
another part OF the house with a CIR
called Maud. On Bakers sugges.
ton he and Parkison went tc
the Chicago saloon across the
street. drank and returned to Hates
Baker at this time had but 81 so.
This" says Parkison, was Thursday
night, and l did not soe Baker again alive,
but viewed his dead body as it lay beside
the track.
At moor Thursday Baker and Parki-
sou we're conyersing at the post and the
former said that a few nights before hi
had trouble with Miller and Wise owe
an inmate of Mormon Hates. He re
lated how Miller showed a knife and wa
backed by Wise and how he stood then
off with his revolver. a 38cahber bull dog
In the course Of this talk Baker said b,
would use his weapon on Miller and Wis,
if they troubled him that night, evident.
anticipating a collision.
THE AUTOPSY.
Capt. W. p. Kendall, the surgeon VIII
made the autopsy, is certain hat Bake
was struck on the head with a blunt in
strument, doubtless the stone, which, I'm
der the microscope, carried hair alonI
with the blood visible to the naked eve
Several blows were struck before the fata
bullet wound was inflicted. Death wa
instantaneous. The shooting, powde
burning evidenced, was at close range.
In the region of the heart in Baker
body occurred a knife wound made, tn
surgeon believes, fully ,oIty-eight hour
before death. 1t was not a serion
mark.
THE BLOODY STONE.