Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-15
COUNTERFE|TS
MADE IN TRANCE,
WOMAN s STORY.
Male lmpersonator Tells Police
How Husband Hypnotized Her
and Made Her Trace Bills.

KANSAS CITY, June 1.-THE
mystery of the strange case of -.
Baker" arrested here as a man
masQuerading as woman, now
proves to be a women.
Baker" is accused of filling out and
casl1ing money orders which she stole
from the postoffice at Summerland,
California, where her sister was post
master By her own admission, she
also engraved thousands of dollars
worth of currency which was convert
ed into cash by a confederate
Baker" who is still referred to by
the police as a man and who has
nearly a score of aliases, tells a re-
markaOle story. She says she was
born in Walnut Iowa, and that she
has taught school in Missouri, Kan
sas, Iowa, Oklahoma. Colorado, Utah.
and Idaho. In some of the places she
says she taught disguised as a man;
in others as a woman.
Baker" says she was married to
the man she declares has been her
confederate IN her forging and cOup
terfeiting operations. She asserted
the man had a strange hypnotic in
fiuence over her, and that it was this
influence which led her into wrong
doing.
81 have been the tool OF this man"
she says, This matter of money
orders is as nothing compared with
what l have done. This man has
been able to make me do anything
He always seemed to know where
was, no matter in what Part of the
two 10 h
hand on me and make my hands do
marvellous things
Changed Money in Japan.
Il have traced the lines of hun
dred-dollar bills to other paper, max
ing tracing for the different colOrs
He has put them through a little
press and turned out bills so nearly
like the original that it would take
an expert to distinguish between
the two. One time we made $1,000
in these bills The man who had
this influence over me went to Japan,
where he had the money exchanged
to Japanese money and then into
United States gold. Then he came
back to America. 1t did not take
him long to find me. He was very
liberal in giving me money, but de-
manded that l do Just as he said"
Baker" is being held for the au
thorities of California under a fugi-
tive warrant She says she 10 glad
of her arrest and OF the opportunity
to get away from the influence of
her alleged confederate.
Made Pastor Her Victim.
Physicians says Bakers" case is a
most unusual one. Her appearance
is such that with a little makeup she
can readily pass for either a woman
or a man.
Concerning her money order for
geries Baker" said: Il have a sister
living at Summerland, Cal. She Is
the postmaster there on February
2S of this year my sister was getting
ready TO go away and / was in the
office She locked up everything with
the exception Of the money order
blanks. and l took about twenty five
of them and stamped them.
"One order l made out payable to
a minister This man with whom l
had been travelling wrote the minis
ter a letter stating that ! was his son
and if ! went to church regularly to
get the money order cashed and give
me the money, but IL l failed to
attend church to return the money
order to him.
''Of course, ! went to church and
the minister got the money order
cashed and gave the money 20 me In
all got about 81, 600 from the orders