The north Mississippi herald. (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.) 1888-1929, 1921-09-23
MILLER FLIP"
BAKER ARRESTED
FOR "ZULING''
Tom Kinney Arrested "Flip"Aat
Sardis-Will Claim the
$500 Reward Offered
for Bakers Capture.

j. M. Baker, Georgia avenue, form
er Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Rail-
road flagman, was arrested on a
southbound Illinois Central train early
Tuesday afternoon at Sardis, Miss,
by 7. M. Kinney, Illinois Central spe-
cial agent at Grenada, Miss. and
brought to Memphis at z 80 last night
for questioning by Inspector of De-
tectives Will T. Griffin and T. T.
Keliher, chief special agent of the
Illinois Central, in connection with
the shooting last Friday night of A.
s. Mcdowell.
Mcdowell, Illinois Central conduc.
tor, was shot in the back with load
of buckshot while walking the top of
his train, in bound, while it was TAX
ing water at Millington, Tenn.
Baker is the fourth man to be placed
under arrest. One man, who is al
legged to have made q statement to
Griffin in which ne implicated Baker,
is under arrest on charge of assault
to murder. He is William E. Foster,
Illinois Central flagman, whose home
is at Fulton, KY. The other two men
are being held for investigation.
Special Agent Kinney, it was said
last night, would be awarded the $500
reward offered by officials of the
railroad for the arrest of Baker, for
whom the entire south has been
secured by police and railroad detec-
tives since the shooting of Mcdowell.
Kinney had been working on the
case with Chief Special Agent Pete
McHugh of tn Memphis division, Don
Walton A. "a II, s. w. Brown,
special agents and others
When it became evident yesterday
morning that Baker was not in Men,
phis Kinney left on the $50 Illinois
Central passenger for his headquar-
ters at Grenada. He was sitting in
the smoker when the train stopped at
Sardis. Baker, whom Kinney knew
personally, got on the train. He was
walking up the aisle of the coach
when the specia agent recognized
him.
Kinney Immediately placed the man
in handouts and escorted him to Gre
NADIA. There Kinney took his man
off the train and notified Inspector
Griffin in Memphis by long distance
telephone. Griffin dispatched De-
tective Sergeants J. G.. Kennedy and
F. M. Glisson to Grenada to aid Kim
zey in bringing Baker back to Mem
phis.
While the detectives and special
agents were reticent Immediately up
on their arrival with the prisoner, it
was understood that Baker had made
no statement.
He was Immediately closeted with
Inspector Griffin, in whose, personal
charge the case wa placed by the spe-
cial agents shortly after the shooting.
The shooting of Mcdowell was the
Climax of what authorities declare
was concerted move against negro
brakeman on the Illinois Central and
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley railroads,
which has resulted during the last six
months in the killing of four negroes
and the whipping of several others.
The negro brakemen slain were
shot from their trains or riddled with
bullet by men hidden in underground
at the side of the right-of-way. Not
the slightest inkling of who was re-
sponsible for the shooting could be
CLEANED until the night attack on Nc
Dowell, who it is said, was mistaken
for q negro brakeman.
With the Mcdowell wounding Off
GERS of the road became thoroughly
aroused and declared that the time
had come to put definite stop to the
murders and attacks. Chief Special
Agnt Keliher was summoned here
from Chicago, and has been directing
an investigation of the Mcdowell af-
fair and the negro killings.
He would make no statement last
night.
Asked If he expected to make addi-
tional arrests in the case of the Mis-
sissippi shootings, he refused to talk,
but indicated that the case is not
closed.
Following tip early Friday after
noon that gang of men intended to
"kill negro" at Millington, Inspec-
tor Griffin dispatched Detective Ser
geants Kenndy and Glisson and Spe-
cial Agents Pete McHugh and Don
Walton to that point. Fifteen min
utes after the shooting of Mcdowell
the detectives arrested 8 men. Eos
ter was one of them. He made a de-
tailed sworn statment to Griffin in
which he admitted that he and the
others had gone to Millington for the
purpose of killing a negro brakeman.
He is said to have implicated Ba-
ker,
Mcdowell is now recovering at st.
Joseph's Hospital.
FLIP" BAKERS CONFESSION.
"On the evening Of Sept. is, I was