The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-06-17
SHOT HIM DEAD.
Hidden Assassin Mt Manchester ny,
Kills Tom Baker, Leader or
Famous Faction.

shooting was done after Special Judge
A. King Cook had granted the Bakers
a change of venue and the prisoners
were to have been taken to HARBOUR
vile, bail having been refused. Man
chester is wild with excitement. The
Bakers and Towards have scores OF
friends in the country and there is no
telling now where the trouble will end.
1t has not been ascertained who fired
the shot that killed Baker, but the con-
sensus of opinion seems to be that II
was fred from the house of Sheriff Bev-
erly White, directly opposite the court
house.
When the court adjourned Saturday
afternoon Judge Cook had rendered his
decision and there was no indication
Of trouble. The crowd was orderly and
there was no visible excitement. AT
$50 o'clock the correspondent mount
ed his horse and set out for London.
When about hundred yards down the
road from the courthouse the,crack of
a rifle was heard and Il thin cloud of
smoke lowered in the air behind the
house of Sheriff White and the court
house.
There was a sudden quiet. The lull
was of short duration. A cry went up
that Tom Baker was killed. IL was
| true. Tom Baker lay dead fiat on his
back in front of the guardhouse tent.
There was no need of sounding the as
sembly.
InsIinctively the soldiers doomed up
with fixed bayonets and charged across
the steet and surrounded the White
residence. At the same time the gait
to bear on the place.
Meanwhile the widest confusion pre-
vaile[. a rush was made for the court
house, but the soldiers were already
out, and fearing volley, the crowd
hurriedly pushed down the hill again.
Up to the time the correspondent left
Manchester no arrests had been made.
1t will be a difficult matter to ascertain
who fired the shot, and the belief that
il was aimed from the White residence
is itself conjecture, though the position
of the smoke seemed tell-tale evidence.
London Depot, Ky, June Ia.-The
Towards and their allies, the Whites.
are in possession of the ground at Man
chester in the Baker-Howard feud and
few Bakers or Baker sympathizers are
left to modest them. After Tom Baker,
the head of the Baker faction. met his
tragic death Saturday at the hands Of
an assassin whose deed stands alone
the coldest-blood in the history of
| Kentucky feudal wars, the state mill
| tia. under Col. Williams, with Wiley.
Jim Dee and Al Baker, shorn of their
arms, left over the mountain road for
Barbourville, where there the charges
of numbering Burch Storrs and Wilson
Howard will be tried on change of
| venue granted by Judge Cook.
Baker, when shot, was in his tent and
within IS feet of the assassin who fired
house, diagonally across the street.
Baker told his wife that he was tired
and would stand up for fresh air, and
when he did so bullet pierced his
breast. Col. Williams sounded the as
sembly and the battalion of militia
charged Whites house. They found
the gates locked and the doors barred
but the boys in blue broke the locks
and bars and found inside nothing save
a stock of Winchester rifles. Upon ex-
animation one of these guns was found
to contain freshly exploded cartridge
and it is this which sent the leaden
missile through the heart of the fear.
less feud leader.
The people of this place and along
the road to Manchester are wild with
excitement. Sympathy for the Bakers
is expressed on every side. The troops
are powerless under Kentucky law to
protect or execute the simplest duty,
being subject to the orders of the coun-
ty sheriff, who in this case is not in
sympathy with their purpose. John G.
White, of Winchester, KY, brother
of Sheriff Beverly White, with two
guards passed through here Sunday,
going to the scene. 1t is stated that
special Judge A. King Cook will order
special grand jury and attempt to in
dict the slayers of Tom Baker, but the
fact that Judge Cook is not the regu-
tlcttNu JUICY thiS
ter.
Barbourville, KY, June 12.- Since the
change of venue was granted at Man
chester, Clay county, Saturday for the
Baker murder trials to be held here in
the Knox county courts, this city has
been in state of excitement. IL will be
impossible in this place, which has a
population of between 1000 and 1900
inhabitants, with good officers, for
such u tragedy to occur as that at the
village of Manchester Saturday under
the shadow of the court, when Tom
Baker, the principal defendant, was
shot dead while a prisoner of the court
AS Tom Baker had killed William
White, brother of Sheriff Beverly
White, of Clay county, and as the
crowd saw the rife fired from window
in the sheriff's Office at the time Baker
| fell dead into the arms of his wife il is
thought that there may be another
trial soon for change of venue to this
| place.