The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-06
Little BOgOta Girl Not to
Get Money Left Her
Without Contest.
ARRESTS STILL TALKED OF
Prosecuting Attorney of Bergen
County Has Evidence Gathered
About Rich Spendthrift's
Death -- Hurd Residence
Watched by Detectives.

BOGOTA, NOV. 6.-Natane May
Hurd a blue-eyed, ruddy-haired baby
of 3, awoke today to find herself an
heiress-that is, she would, il she could
realize all her "Uncle" Walter Farms
worth Bakers death meant to her.
AS 1t is, Miss Natalie was found fond
ling an exceedingly aged rag doll on
the front porch of her parents rather
pretentious Elizabethan villa here in
Bogota. not a whit the prouder for
the knowledge that she is an heiress.
Her father, Frank B. Hurd, is the son
of George b. Hurd, well-to-do paper
manufacturer of Broome street, New
York. and is an official of his fathers
concern.
Walter Farnsworth Baker, the
prohigate young Boston clubman..
willed his fortune to this pretty
child, the second daughter of his dear
est friend. This tiny beneficiary is
likely to be the centre about which a
fight for Bakers millions will be waged.
Already his Boston brother, Edward f.
Baker, has engaged counsel, asserting
that his brother was poisoned, and for
some reason, which he refuses to d.
vulge, is said to have had the resi-
dence of the Hurds watched by private
detectives.
The Whole mystery of Walter #.
Bakers death has been placed in the
1Utnds of Prosecutor Ernest Koester, of
Bergen County. Mr.. Koester after
considering carefully the evidence laid
before him by Bakers detectives, said
today that at present he had not suffi-
cient evidence to warrant his ordering
any arrests in what he said he consid-
cred was a very suspicious case.
my Instructions to the detectives
are" he said, ito get me more conelu-
sive facts going to prove that Baker
was poisoned in a suburb within my
jurisdiction. Then. and not till then,
will I be able to act"
Mr.. Koester said that he expected
two arrests to be made shortly If the
assertions of the private detectives
were borne out, as they have assured
him they would be.
As has been already told. Walter
Farnsworth Baker, a young spend
thrift, died at the home of his nearest
and dearest friends--the Hurds--in Bo-
gotta, after lightning trip in an auto
mobile from Brownies chop house, a
Broadway rendezvous in New York.
Baker had dined with the Hurds in
Bogota and then motored into New
York with them. They left him at the
Erie ferry depot to go to the apartment
of Mrs. Hurds sister-in-law, Mrs. Nat
allie Young, wife of George w. Young,
of the Windsor Trust Company Ac-
cording to Mr.. Hurd the next they
heard of Walter Baker was when a tel
ephone message and then personal
call from Harry Lee, one of Bakers
intimates, reached them at Mrs.
Youngs apartments, in the Hotel Not
tingham, 35 East Thirtieth street
The call told them that Walter Baker
was taken seriously i'll and was insist
ing In delerium that he had been pois-
oned The Hurds thereupon hastened
to kid" McCoy's garage, in West
Forty fourth street, where Bakers
friends had in the meantime hired
motor and drove the machine at top
speed, with him in the tonneau, to
Bogota. About an hour after reaching
there Baker expired, still insisting that
he had been poisoned.
'I thought he had drunk too much,
and so did not call physician" was
Hurd's explanation Of his failure to
summon a doctor till after Bakers
death.
This explanation, however, is, ac-
cording to Prosecutor Koester. unsatis-
ectory to Bakers relatives. They
want to know why doctor was not
called to Brownies chop-house when
Baker first declared that some poison
had been administered to him. They
also want to know why, in the face of
Bakers declaration that he was a VIC
tim of foul play. he was hurried in an
automobile to Bogota, distance OF
many miles from the place where the
young millionaire had declared he was
poisoned