The Washington times., 1921-03-18

LAID TO YOUTH
Leroy Baker, ''Kid Rafflesss
Lands in Police Tolls 10 :,
Richmond, Va q
TERR0RIzED D. c. N n1
Housewife Identifies Pictm91s
That of Man Who
Stole RING ae


toils of the police \
He is the intrepid boy burytH
who in 1912 terrorized Washing
ton by his boldness and startled
his cunning when he entered a
the entire police department. with
number Of households, calmly
thrust his binding flashlights intS
the terror-stricken faces Of men
and women, and, at the point d a
revolver, collected their vaiusbae1.
WANTED As MARCH THIEF.
Baker now is wanted in the Capital
for the sensational and daring attack
he Is alleged to have made on March
4, last, on Mrs. Mary B. Logan. widow
Of william R Logan, 1918 Belmond
road.
Mrs. Logan yesterday Identified .
rogues gallery picture of Baker as
the youth who, on the day President
Harding was inaugurated, she dis
covered ransacking her home. She
claims that Baker showed a revolver
against her ribs, threatened her life
~ che made an outcry, and ordered
her. under pain of death, into a closet,
which he locked. The robber then
made his escape with a 81 200 dia-
mond ring belonging to Mrs. Logan.
Besides Mrs Logan, four other per-
sons have Identified Bakers picture
as that OF the youth who attempted tor
sell them Mrs. Logan's ring.
FIGHTS ExTRADITION.
Inspector Clifford l.. Grant. chief p<
detectives, learned that Baker wsa
in Richmond. and the youths arrest
was ordered. Yesterday when Do
tective Sergeant Harry Pratt went to
Virginia's capital, Baker had employ
ed a lawyer and said he would night
extradition to Washington.
Baker protests his innocence and
claims he will be able to prove an
alibi. He has been engaged in the
automobile business. he said. and been
trying to go right" Satisfied that
Baker is the burglar who robbed Mrs.
Logan's home because of the positive
Identification Of his photograph. In
spector Grant is to exert all legal ef-f
forts to have the youth returned 60
this city for trial.
Il know / am not mistaken said
Mrs. Logan, when she was asked OF
her certainty of Bakers photograph
as that OF the man whom she dis
covered in her home on March I. He
! is the man. ] could never forgst
those eyes"
Is HANDSOME YOUTH
Baker. a handsome youth, has large
piercing eyes. He has an abundapcs
of black hair and heavy black eye
! brows. The police say his face woosd
naturally make an impression and
would not be easily forgotten.
Baker came to Washington after he
had escaped in 1912 from st. Mary's
Industrial school in Baltimore. his
home. He had been committed to the
institution for entering a house and
chloroforming woman whom fr7
robbed. He was then but sixteen
years old. Following his escape from
the Industrial school he came to The
Capital and perpetrated the series %
robberies.
1t was Baker who told the police
following his arrest that Won don't
have to be q criminal at heart to be
a burglar l needed food. could not
gegt work so | turned burglar, not
as a criminal but as a starving boy
He made this plea in the District
Supreme Court, but IL had but little
effect. He was sentenced to serve
five years at the Federal prison at
Leavenworth. After serving the pris-
on term, he started on his return to
his home in Baltimore. But reachirE
Cincinnati, he equipped himself with
revolver, flashlight and mask ami
entered and robbed a home. He was
captured ard sentenced to twO years
in an Ohio prison.
When Baker fell into the clutches
OF the law here in 1912. he was but
eighteen years old--a clean-cut Lad,
not the, hardened criminal which the
guardians of the peace had pictured
as the perpetrator OF the daring
| crimes. Instead, he was a mere slip
OF q boy, whose face, yet FREQ =
beard, possessed clear-cut. handso
features. I'D
WAS "RAFFLEs- FAN.
The boy carried m his pessN
the fun equipment of Rahlcx
adventures he had just
before falling into the
law. He was armed
revolver. billy. ty
mustache, and fiasf
into custody by
O'Brien and Jap
lodging house
As the detect
boy burglar
| Il was knocl
| Al Police
calm and
he comics,
Later. wh
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