The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-12
DEMAND RIGHT TO-
EXAMINATION OF BAKERS
BODY BY own EXPERTS

remarked that he had had q good din
ner. This dinner was eaten in Bogota,
and was accompanied by a champagne
punch.
Harry Lee said he met Baker in
Brownies an hour after, the arrival of
the West Shore ferry which brought
Baker and the Hurds to the city from
Bogota. 1t was $50 p. M. They had
a drink, Baker taking whiskey, after
exchanging greetings.
Baker said he wanted to rent an auto
to take a party of five to Hackensack
at II O'Clock, mentioning no names.
They went to McCoy's garage in West
Forty-third street, where they engaged
"A Ear for $11 for the trip. Afterwards
they went to the Rialto, in Forty
fourth street, where Baker became i'll.
He put on his overcoat and said:
Harry, I'm sick. I've got TO go
somewhere and lie down"
The two walked out. Baker said:
Harry, I'm poisoned. You get me
to some place where [ can lie down."
They went to the garage. where
Baker tumbled on the seat of the car
in a heap. On the way to Brownies
Lee took him in his arms. Baker kept
repeating:
"Oh, I'm sick; I think I've been
poisoned
Lee said he and Mr.. Hurd went up
to Bakers room. The sick man had
undressed and was in bed. He said ne
had been vomiting, and was so weak
he could hardly Walk. He had told Lee
the pain was in his stomach and kept
his hands pressed upon his abdomen.
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cording to Lee, was:
"Now what's the matter with you?
If you're going to be sick the place for
you is home. You get up and come out
with me at once. Tbs ladies are down.
, stairs and we don't want to keep them
waiting"
Baker said he wanted a doctor. Hurd
replied:
Now you'u get anything you want
when you get out of this house. If
you think I'm going to leave you here
you've got a very wrong opinion of the
Hurd MENACE
Repeated, 'I'm Poisoned
Baker was dressed and all went down
in the elevator. Lee said he asked
Baker if he had had anything to eat,
and Baker replied hat he had a good
dinner. Six or eight times he repeated
Harry, I've been poisoned"
when be said he wanted a doctor
started for the door to get one said
Lee, in reply to questions from Prose
cutor Rooster, 'Hurd stopped me and
said, He'll get a doctor when he gets
out to the house,
DR.. George B. McGrath, medical ex-
aminer of Suffolk County, Boston, was
the first witness yesterday. He said he
had made an autopsy on the body Of
Baker in the presence of Drs. Gibbons
Underhill, Kenny and others.
He said IN body had been embalmeo
the incisions of the embalmer having
been made under the right arm n II
the chest. otherwise the body bore n,
marks. He declared that every in
ternal organ was In a normal condi
ton. He said there was not the slight
est evidence of either heart disease o
kidney tnouble.
Or. McGrath then told of his CONVEX
sations with Mrs. Frank Hurd at thu
Hotel Lenox on the day of the autopsy
and of her story of the trip from
Browns chophouse in New York t
Bogota, where Baker died in the Hurt
home.
lie dQueu tHal MIS-. nun hdu AOA'
him that Baker had died a few minute
after he drank a glass of water am
that after his death she had notices
blush spots on his chest. DR.. Me
Grath said these spots were indication
of poison.
! DIR. Charles Harrington, professor o
{ hygiene of Harvard Medical School, an
secretary of the Massachusetts Stat
i, Board of Health. testified he had foun'
two and a half grains of arsenic in tn
stomach lining. Asked # he was pre-
i pared to state the cause of Waite
Bakers death, Professor Harringta
o said:
in my opinion he died OF arsenica
i poisoning"