The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-03-06
BAKERS MAD CREED.
Sells All the Evidences of Frank
lin Parks Awful Tragedy.
Sharp Bargain Over His Dear Ones
Blood Stained Garments.
His Cupidity Taken Advantage OF
by New York Museum.

NEW BRUNSWICK, n. j.. March O.
Moore Baker. the young farmer Of
Franklin Park, whose young wife and
sixtecn-months-old daughter Gertrude
were murdered In their beds last week
by the two negroes. Willard Thompson
and Henry Person, both OF r.ho... baker
subsequently killed. has lost much of
the sympathy extended to him in his
terrible bereavement by his neighbors
and the community herenbouts through
his inexplicable action yesterday.
An agent for "A New York museum WIS.,
tied Baker at his fathers home yester-
day. and offered him a handsome sum
for the bloody bedstead. mattress. pill
lows. bedclothing, Baby Gertrudes crib.
Mrs. Bakers bloody night-dress, which
| she wore when she was murdered, and.
in fact. everything in the bedroom that
was In any way connected with the MUIR
der.
Baker demanded higher price than
was offered. A sharp bargain was driven
| between the two men, and Baker stipu-
| lated that he was to receive the money
| in cash.
| The agent for the museum finally
| agreed to give Baker his own price for
The, bloody mementocs Of the murder.
/
to the house where the murder had oc-
CURED which has remained closed sine
| the day of the tragedy. Baker living
| with his father
| Baker unlocked the door and. followed
by the museum agent, walked up the
Stairs which the two negroes had trod'
den so softly in their stocking feet the
night of the terrible crime.
Baker did not bctray any apparent
| emotion. They went into the bedroom
where the murder had been committed
htdeous bloodstalns that had dyed tn,
| wall. the bed, the haby's crib, the bed.
ding and everything about II. were still
there, but they had turned n deeper
| red.
The bloody axe was there, with which
the negroes had siaugtered the mother
and her babe. over which Baker and IN,
negro, Thompson, had fought so DIES
killed Thompson.
The shotgun with which Baker ha,
| shot Pierson was also there. There wa
| blood on the barrel Of the gun. Tn,
gun and the axe stood In the corner o.
| the room.
The museum agents eyes glistened a
highly sensational exhibition f9r his
museum and would draw a big crowd
That was what he wanted.
| Baker appreciated the value OF these
things to the museum man., and mad,
him pay well for them. The museum
man paid the money down, and Bakcl
put 1t in his pocket with "A smile OF sat
isfaction. Then Baker helped the mu
scum man pack the things up. They
were loaded on wagon and driver
away.
Everything that was movable in tn,
room that bore evidences of the erin,
was taken away. Nothing remnins e
day but the four walls of the bedroom
covered with blood-splashed paper. Tn
museum man couldn't take the paper of
| the walls, So he left II.
| Baker locked up the house again, sal,
Eood-by to the museum Li5n, and wen
back to his fathers house. The museum
man drove away, satisfied with his bar
gain, and Baker went home TO his faith
cr's house, also satisfied,
| There is but one general feeling apon
the peOpl" OF the community. 1t Il
of disgust and contempt for Baker, ii
was widely applauded for his killing q
the two murderers. but now the genera
feeling IL that he lacks the ordinary lin
sensibilites. He knew that these evi
dences OF the tragedy which deprive
him OF his wife and child were to b
placed on exhibition before a morbidl
curious public. but that made no diner
ence TO him.
Hooking as unconoerned a. v nothin
had happened,