Year: 1873

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DR.. 2. R. Baker, a physician OF good
standing in Warren, went to the house of
Mink. whose sister formerly acted in the
capacity of housekeeper for DR.. Baker
while he was practicing in Thomaston 1t
is supposed that criminal intimacy existed
between them at that time. When DR..
Baker left town tor the West, some time
afterwards, she followed him and made
her threats to different parties that if he
everhad different housekeeper she would
be the death Of him. He came to Warren
about six months ago and she returned
soon after. He has been boarding at the
hotel till this spring, when he purchased
a house and commenced housekeeping,
since which time he has received several
letters from Miss Mink threatening to
burn his house and kill him if he did not
discharge Mrs. Kirk and employ her. He
has paid no attention to these letters, but
has made fun of them, and rs the sad end
shows, placed no confidence in them.


DR.. Baker was called to see sick child
about 9 O'Clock Friday evening, in the
vicinity of the house of Mink Miss Mink
testities that DR.. Baker came to their house
between the hours of nine and ten, she
having retired. Hearing knock at the
door she cot up and let him in, and he un-
dressed and retired with her About ten
O'Clock she came to the house of Mr. Spear
in her night clothes, crying out, Il am
| shot; | am shot: DIR. Baker shot me-"
| Upon examination it was found that it
was not so. She appeared to be in a state
of frenzy and great excitement all through
the night. In the morning the neighbors
| found DR.. Bakers gie in the ward of Mink
and his horse in the barn. The door of
| the house was locked, which was then
| broken open, and proceeding into the
| house they found the unfortunate man
| lying dead on the chamber floor. His
pants were on, his vest on wrong side out,
and one stocking partially on.


1t is supposed that after receiving the
fatal wound he attempted to dress himself,
! and in doing so tell backward in the posi-
| ton he was found The ball passed
through his breast into his lungs. The
wound was of such a nature that the
hemorrhage was all internal. The woman
has been arrested and a post mortem ex-
animation made of the body The body
is now in charge of the coroner. An in
quest was held Saturday afternoon, but
was not finished. as important evidence
has been telegraphed for. The INQUEST
will be resumed Monday at two P. NJ
All parties are now anXiously awaiting
the developments OF the inquest. 1t is
coniectured by some that another party is
implicated in this tragedy.


A special dispatch to the Portland Press
gives the following version of the affair
Some additional reports have been re-
ceived from the murder case OF DR. Baker
OF Warren, but up to a hour Saturday the
Coroner's Jury had not returned their ver-
diet, and there are strong suspicious that
the murderer is some other person than
Lucy Mink. She was keeping house for
her brother recently divorced and living
alone, who was absent from town. About
eleven o'clock Friday night, she, in her
night dress aroused a family living in the
next house, with the startling intelligence
that she had been shot, and was so fright
oned apparently that little information
| could be gained.


The men Al once proceeded TO her house,
but did not search it, and supposing that
she had been frightened at nothing, gave
her shelter for the night. On Saturday
morning DR.. Baker was found on the floor
shot through the heart, with no pistol any
where TO be found. DR.. Baker had evil
dently intended to remain some time as
his horse and team were in the stable.
The suspicious that some other per-
son may have done the shooting would
| in measure, excuse the conduct of Miss
Mink. who claimed that she had been
shot. The pistol shot mark showed that
it had been placed close to the body.
Others think that she deceived him to her
house in the absence of her brother, with
the intention of killing him in revenge for
not marrying her, She having claimed to
have had child by him three years ago.
DR.. Baker was always regarded as a skill
full physician.


A correspondent of the Argus has the
following details of the tragedy: On
Friday evening last. about half-pa eight,
DR.. F. X. Baker left his residence in War
rem village TO visit u patient about a mile
distant. According to rumor, he left the
house at eight forty-tive and drove to the
residence of Mr.. Warren Mink. No per
son being nj home but Miss Lucy Ann
Mink, a sister. the doctor took his horse
from the gig and put him in the barn.
| Miss Mink says it was about nine o'clock
when she let him into the house No
| person being present but two small bows,
one aged nine the other seven, what oc-
! CURED in the house we have no reliable
data to 60 by.


At ten O'clock Miss Mink. in her night
clothes, made her appearance at the door
of Mr. Alexander Spear, and informed
the family she had been shot, but gave no
| reasons. Mr.. Spears family, or the male
portion, immediately repaired to the house
OF Warren Mink and tapped on the Win
1 IhKt- # tho haric haI l,,,t.r
reply. They left and did not visit the
premises again until morning, when they
saw the gig in the yard and the horse in
the barn, They went into the house and
there DR.. Baker lay on his back in the
young lady's bed room, dead, having
| been Shot, the pistol ball having entered
the stomach. His boots, hat and coat were
! lying on the floor, a short distance from
the rament of Miss Mink except her boots
and stockings, which were at the side or
and chain were lying on the stand The
tions are that it had been occupied by two
| persons.


From appearance it seems the doctor
had become alarmed and had begun to
dress in hurry. Dr. Baker Law in the





was extinct. Miss Mink was a domestic
in DR.. Bakers family some years ago,
when his wife died afterwards, as she
represents, his mistress. for she stated be-
tore the coroner's jury that she had known
him from the zoe Of ten years, and had
been intimate with him for years, also that
she had had a child by him some years
previous, but refused to tell any more


Sheriff Hobbs visited the scene of the
murder Saturday morning, and found that
the body had been conveyed to the doctors
late residence in Warren. He brought
Miss Mink to Rockland and now has her
in the lookup. She is not communica-
tive. The following letter is all the docu-
ments that have been found:


Contidentlally."l


WARREN, March 6, 1873.


DR.. Baker: | wish you to come and settle
with me without any further inducements


l.. A. MINK.


1t is stated that DR.. Baker at one time
received n letter from Miss Mink which