New-York tribune., 1908-03-07
BAKER INQUEST AT LAST.
Results of AUTOPSY Cause a pigor-
ous Investigation To Be Planned.

rro1-o,s..t ~ T March CSpeciaD.-The body Of
Walter Far1nsworth Baker. Of Boston, VINO dIeu
Z, -be home OF Frank H Hu~d, at Bogota= carry
Sunday morning, October = last, and who was
b,Traad In +be Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston. viii
ba viewed tomorrow afternoon by jury selected
to-day by Coroner De MUnd, Of Ridgewood- Lhe
body was secretly exhurned and taken from the
Boston cemetery to RidSewood on January ID
Prosecutor Koester Of Hackensack and Coroner
De Mund agreed to have & thorough investigation
made on that date hut word reached them that
Natalie the young daughter Of Frank Hurd. was
III with diphtheria, and the inquest was postponed
Since then the Hurd child. prospective heiress to
a third Of Walter Bakers estate, died
Coroner De Mund will hold an inquest in Hacken-
sack next Tuesday evening. The jury is composed
OF ex- Sheriff James W. Mercer of ETackensack.
Freeholder Peter d Henderson, Of Fairlawn. and
Postmaster Roger BrIdgnan, Peter G AabriskIe,
George B. Richardson and Elmer Paxton, all OF
Ridgewood
The fact that Bakers body taken to a
Ridgewood coroner Is due to the connection that
the undertaken, Ricardo. had with the case. He
embamed Bakers body in a hurry, even after he
was told that 1t d for the coroner. and
authorities thought tt best to avoid any feel
ing Ricardo viii be one of the chief witnesses He
saws that no arsenic in the embalmng fluid
used.
Edward Baker. Of Boston. Is personally respon-
sible for this unusual condition of affairs. He be
Iieves his brother murdered He has told of
his suspicious TO Prosecutor Ernest koester. The
detectives have far failed to connect any one
with the alleged murder Prosecutor Koester says
that if there really much arsenic in Bakers
BODY as the experts found then he believes Soma
or most It must have been administered in New
Jersey. in which state Baker spent a good part Of
his time.
Edward Baker says he will nave the Boston ex-
perts the inquest Tuesday night 1t is
zidered remarkable that the presence of Bakers
bod, in the Ridgewood morgue for six weeks
escaped detection The norgue is in the middle Of
3 block. between two newspaper Offices and two
weeks ago 4 fire in the establishment broke out
very the coffin
WIN NJ Clemens. the private detective. gave
ont q statement yesterday in which he said his
agents had perhaps found soma sort OF clew
the mystery of Bakers death at that time, He
saws that days before Bakers death a Jour
newman painter named Peter McGloyn. came here
from Wellesley. Mass. and STAYED with friend
named Schwarz. At No Sc West Tooth street. He
told this friend that he had Job" and while
never telling what the job. was away at all
sorts hours. and unusually well supplied
with money One morning. about o'clock he
the hallway of No. n by mistake.
Nj Clemenss statement continues
Suddenly he was seized bv two IN evening
drF ma mas , pulled INTO The street + across The side
the cab was a woman appa rently we'll dressed.
Walk shouted 10 the me5 Don { Kin him! Don't
XII him.
the park a m1rhan found McCloyn. gagged and
about coming out OF his COuSClOuSneSS- lie was
taken the ! Hood Wright Hospital Mctiloyn.
after four five hours in the hospital. came to
and said that ne had been ChlOrofOrwed.
on leaving the hospital he said he had been
robbed $50 and watch. He Immediately dlsap-
peared telling Mrs. Schwartz that ne returning
. Boston
WELLESLEY the home Of McGloyn. the homo
or the Baker brothers during boyhood and y9Ith'
and MctiIovn was pal, Of the two brothers.
To solve the mystery Of Bakers death II might
be well to discover why McCiloyn should leave his
work n Wellesley. come Ia New York to do a
.-iob' " hflc Walter Baker here. and get into
trouble and then suddenly leave town an hour
after being discharged from The hospital
Boston March 6-The friends OF Walter F Baker
are greatly Interested in the investigation the New
Jersey authorities making in connection
with the belief Of the dead mans brother that
death was due poisoning Previous efforts on
.bc nsrt of the brother have investigated his
helief that Walter r Bakers death was due 10
poisoning which he called to the attention or the
%,y. Jersey and New York authorities. were with
oui result For four months he has mad detet~
tf,e- u the case trying 10 discover how tn" guam
titjes of arsenic found in the body had been ad-
,s,,stered and by whom. whether they VIII testl-
f. a. the inquest Is not known