Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-05-30
BAKER ESCAPED BY
DOPING GUARDS
HE DECLARES
HERE TODAY
Riverside County Officers
Leave for California with
Their Prisoner Who Was
Captured Here.
MOTION PICTURES OF
DEPARTURE TAKEN

James Arthur Baker. wanted Tor
obtaining money under false pre-
lenses in itivcrslde. Cal who
escaped from Riteralde county Off
GERS ai F'iagainn. Ari4. Monday
night, aud was captured here hy Chief
OF Police McMiliin "Wednesday after
noon, left IN the santa Re limited
az 1925 this morning. beelnning
agnin his journey westward after "a
stay % two days IN local iails. Just
before the train pulled nut this morn
ing Ifoker said that he escaped from
the Riverside officers -Sh.rlr Wilson
and Deputy CrOssley -hy dropping
Knockout drops VA their drinks.
~ put two one fourth grain NOR.
phine tablets IN crossleys coffee and
the same portion into drink taken
DN Wilson. said Baker. This was
not enough Co knock them out com
plctcly, hut u made Il impossible for
either OF them 10 keep awake"
Baker insisted that he escaped
from the drawing room al FlaRstaff
~ crawling through q vsntilator IN
the top Of the car. !, u believed by
local officers. however. that Bakcr
made his getaway through tho win
dow IN the side nf the car aud gave
the Ventilator story for effect and FOR
HcnHation reasons. Baker admitted
that he had doped the officers as he
was searched al the city lnl this
morning ana a small vial 81 morphine
tablets found on hls person. lie de-
nicd being dope" hend and when
corncred admitted putting the knock
out drops In the drinks of his guards
8aker WAS in the sunlight and the
limelight for two hours this morning
He was taken. heavily iron
ed, from the nernalillo coun-
~ jail by committee consisting
~ 80 -. a.. -
Wilson and Deputy Crossley OF Riv-
efslde. The ~ Louis Motion Picture
company was on the iob as Baker
and his escorts came out 81 the coun-
~ Jail. and later other pictures were
taken OF him as he assembled the
steps of the limited at the Santa Re
station Baker posed for "stllT
picture on the Alvarado lawn and
seemed not 10 mind the gaze Of "A
hundred people attracted 10 the place
To catch "A glimpse OF the man
woman" characterized as the most
dangerous criminal of modern times.
TIN not a criminal az all" said
raker; II am good And don't like
the report made in the newspapers
Tat l am pessimistic, ! am an OMIT
mist ] would he cheerful and smile
smlia even II i We're going a. the
rack. It's true that I'm always doing
something. ia rather be dead than
deadhcada cipher. I've been ar.
rested. It's true. hut I'm always Vie
tim OF circumstances over which !
have no control
When Baker left here today he was
hand cuffed and the two officers from
whom he escaped Monday night AZ
Flagstaff declared that he would not
get a chance TO escape again.
ON February 2S last Baker stole
twenty-five postqfhce money orders
from the postofnce at Summerland,
Cal. and filled out fourteen OF them
for 400 each and cashed them az A
Riverside bank ON March 6. lie was
arrested In Kansas City ten days ago.
beyond a doubt Baker IN one q
the breakfast" persons that ever
dropped into Albuquerque. lie - a
puzzle 10 everyone who has talked
with him. CHER McMiiiin hrs Sc
cured wide publicity Tor his work IN
capturing Baker. the biz papers OF
the country ha.ing followed his
escape and re-arrest in detail