Evening journal., 1895-05-14
MOORE BAKER WAYLAID
Savage Attack on the Hero of
Franklin Parks Tragedy.
AssAILANTs ALMOST KILLED HIM.


lie Net the Relatives Of Two Of tho No
Eroes Whom lie KILLED Year Ago For
Numbering His wife and Child, and
shortly After lie was Assaulted.
FRANKLIN PARK, n. T., May 14.-Moore
Baker Of this place was struck from behind
with a lead pipe or piece of garden hose as
he was driving to his home from New
brunswick seven miles away, last Satur-
Gay night The blow knocked him sense.
less, and he remained in that condition
over an heur
Whom he recovered consciousness, he
found himself stretched across bis horsos
mock alongside fence The light road
wagon had heon overturned, the harness
was broken and tangled, and rho horse lay
on his sidu in the ditch. Bakers mnnns
brought W. II johnson and Thomas Horny
to tho scene. Henry said last night that
he had known Baker for seven years, but
did not recognize him. SO horribly disflg-
urol was his bleeding face
Moore Bakur is tho young farmer whose
wife and babe were chopped to death by
two negroes IA months ago The whole
family were asleep in an upper bedroom OF
Bakers handsome house at franklin Park,
WITH 4HlfihAu a HbHilihbn dIA 1AlhAA Eltf-
son. or Baker cropt up stairs, shoeless, TO
rob tho farmer Of 800 bill which ha had
inoautiously displayed that day. Baker
awoke Just In time 70 see Thompson brain
bis wife and baby with an ak. He seized
his shotgun. hut it missed fire.
Then he struggled with Thompson for
the ak and finally getting 1t from tho negro
killed him with half dozen terrific blows
on the skull Tho shotgun did its work
when he tried II next, and the negro Baker.
or Fiorson--he was called by both names
fell dying ID an adjoining room Moore
Baker munntod his horse, and without sad
die or bride and clad only in his night
shirt rode half mile to q physicians
house
The doctor was too late He found four
corpses lying in the two bedrooms Of the
farmhouse--those OF the young wife, the
baby Gertrude and the womurderous ne
groes.
Baker VIII Walk.
Baker on being questioned as to this
last assault. said he couldn charge any
particular person with the assault He
| had watch and money. but they were
not touched. lie met only two teams on
| tho road. One contained the relatives OF
the two negroes whom le had killed
About 20 minutes before ] was hit y
said Baker, " / met old George Thompson,
with his son Howard and tho two other
boys Carrie Mingins, who lives with
| George, and her son, pete Baker They
were driving into the city. After passed
them l didn see a soul along the road Z
George Thompson is the father Of Mil
/ lard Thompson, the negro who Killed
/ Moore Baker wife and baby, and whom
/ Baker killed five minutes later. Carrie
/ Mingins lives with him on Henry Cortel
/ you's farm on the Franklin Park road
/ She Is the mother Of the Baker boys, ono
| Of whom was slain with Thompson. Her
/ first husband was named Pierson, but her
| mothers name Baker was taken from
/ Moore Bakers family on whose place her
| mother was a slave, and the boys are gon-
orally called by that name Pete Baker
i said to Henry soon after tho tragedy Of
March, 1894.
If Moore Baker had met me instead Of
my brother Henry that night. things would
have been different
Pete Baker is a left handed negro So IS
| Howard Thompson Moore Baker assail-
ant who undoubtedly struck from behind.
was left handed man. A favorite weap.
on with the negroes around Franklin
| Park is piece Of garden hose filled with
shot. 1t was with such a weapon that
| Moore Baker was hit
The sentiment of the community was
/ pretty we'll expressed by Moore Baker
himself when he said. I ain going to dc
anything about it but keep quiet II the
Thompson gang did it. one of them will
get to Dragging some night when he's
drunk. Then III know what to do. T
The Vigilance league. which was organ.
lied after the great tragedy Of March. 1894,
to drive the negroes out Of Franklin Park.
held six meetings and did nothing. The
league has been dead for year