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East Liverpool & Wellsville, Ohio; May 28, 1887, Vol. 8, No.33
has been abstracted and contributed by Janet Waite
of the Genealogy Pit Stop.
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VAN BAKER, AN EDITOR
In The Long Ago And Now “A Dog With
[Steubenville Herald]
Nobody has yet discovered that Van Baker, the Holliday’s Cove alleged
murderer, is the identical man who struck Billy Patterson, but about every
other historical misdeed has been laid at his door. The latest is a special
dispatch from Ironton, O., printed in a Cincinnati paper, as follows:
“To-day’s issue of the Irontonian intimates that Van B. Baker, who is held
for the murder of his wife and mother-in-law, near Steubenville, is responsible
for two incendiary fires in the office of that paper four years ago, when Baker
was a sort of partner in the concern, and served as its editor. Baker bought the
defunct Lender office, and moved its material to the office of the Irontonian,
after insuring the truck for $4,500. about four times what it was worth. He sat
in the editorial chair for a short time, but pressing obligations which he failed to
meet confronted him, and he drifted to other climes. The efforts to burn the
office were unsuccessful.”
(Abstracted from the May 28, 1887, "The Saturday Review" newspaper,
East Liverpool & Wellsville, Ohio)
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Click below for the next installments:
1887 Double Murder | Cornoner's Verdict
| Van Baker, Editor | Mrs. McWha's Will
Baker in Court | Trial Preparations
Baker's Trial Wednesday | Baker's Trial Thursday
| Baker's Trial Friday | No Comfort |
Saturday's Testimony | Monday's Testimony>
Tuesday's Dalliance | Prisoner Testifies