The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-08
THINKS DRINK KILLED BAKER
DR. ADAWN KNOWS M OTHER POI
son I'm az .JTBES WITH YWPTOMS.

Meanwhile tho Harvard Chemists Have
Wade M Report -~1IauTcurs ami n
Mysterious Wan RrVeaIed. ana a
Romantic Explanation of the VIII.
Yesterday WAS another seesaw of wild
runOrs and d9nials as FAR as it concerned
the death of young Walter F. Baker of
Boston. who his brother insists was muir
dercd. As for some days past, the au-
thoriIies Of HackensaCk were waiting TO
hear the result Of the examination Of the
dead mans tomach in the Harvard medical
school. hut no word came.
DIR. Charles r. Adams. one Of the physi-
clans who viewed the body at the Hur6
home in Bogota. y. j., Immediately after
Bakers death. said yesterday;
$50 far as ! know there il no known
poison which could have been administered
and give exactly the symptoms which were
present ia this ease. IL il my opinion.
which has been strengthened 10y the con-
sheraton the case has reo ived during the
las, week, that alcoholism il Ia blame for
this death"
The chauffeur who drove the car ON the
last ride Of Walter r. Baker. whose name
il said tn be Joseph Gilbert. has been quoted
Nv another chauffeur. Robert Shaw. also
rlnpluved &C Kid McCOy's garage in Forty
fifth street, as telling a dramatic story ~
the ride
I've been poisonedl The poison IL
killing mel" IL the cry which Shaw says
Gilneri told him came from the man in the
tOnneau.
The Pinkertons looked up the chauffeur.
Gilbert. but he denied that he heard Baker
say lac was poisoned.
HE JUST lay back in the touneau in a
sort Of stupOr all the way" Is the way
the cEIaufi eur describes Bakers conduct
OH the ride.
Edward +. Baker liz quoted as saying
Yesterday that his brother had been a
sutton for the hand Of Mrs. hurd while
she WAS Miss Bray. II has been known
all along that Young Baker had long been
an intimate friend of both the Bray girls
now Mrs. Frank IA. HuTd and Mrs. George
W. Young. The word "suitOr' used in
thisc~ connection may Il a touch of romance,
and may possibly explain to "A degree why
Baker left Mrs. Hurd $4,000 and her four
ypar-old daughter. Natalie. a third OF the
residue of his estate. Otherwise il doesn't
seem 10 help much.
Another mysterious man was huTtled
into the limelight yesterday. He ls sup
posed 10 have gone to Brownies chop house
after Baker had zone TO his room there
and inquired which room Baker occupied.
This inquiry was made quietly one IL
told. Then the mysterious man took
the elevator to Bakers room and in a few
minutes came down again and Disappeared
without telling his name, address, or bust
ness.
The detectives believe they have identi-
fed this man as a friend Of Walter Baker.
lnasmuch "a Baker had already been taken
sick before he ~ We up his plans 10 meet
the HuTls with an automobile and took a
room az Brownies instead, II has been PN-
planned that this latest mysterious man may
have gone up to put Baker to bed. Walter
Baker was undressed and In bed when the
Hurds found him. The new character IA
The story is described as tall, well dressed,
with a beard that made him look like u
FrpnChman.'
Perhaps the most amusing Of the reports
Of the day was the one, warmed over from
The previous day. that Public Prosecutor
koester would ask the Massachusetts au-
thOrities to eNhume the body and send II
back for a Bergen county inquest. Every
thing that could show traces Of poison
were there any there has been removed
from the body and hsHded over To the
chemists.
Nobody seems to know where Baker
speDt the hour and "a half between has
leaving the Hurds at the ferry and his
entering Brownies. Some dope it out that
il was during that time that somebody
gave him choral which would make the
time Of action Of this particular choral
longer Than ever
ROsroN, Nov. J. Neither Medical FIX
aNiner MC(igAth nor Edward +. Baker has
set received from DR.. Plan of the Harvard
Medical School \ report Of his ANALYSIS OF
the contents ~ the stomach Of W. +. Baker.
II il doubtful il the analysis is completed
before Saturday. The chemists 0re having
difficulty because Of the quantities Of EN-
balmin2 fluid used by the underi aker Ia
preparing the body. DIR. McGrath is of the
opinion that Baker was given a large dose Of
hydrate OF ChlOr8l.