'A. new and puzzling development in the increasingly entertaining case of James Baker, came late to-day, when alienists who had conducted examination of Baker declared him to be sane.
Baker had something to say about jination himself. ists announced their finding, police had considered the case virtually settled. Unable to confirm several of Baker's tales of murder, they had concluded that hho was crazy and that with a verdict of insanity, they could consider their troubles in a fair way to be over.
If Baker is sane, however, they have no alternative but work once more in an effort to obtain definite confirmation or denial of each of the nine murders to which Baker has confessed. Since several of these were supposed to have occurred in remote corners of the earth, their Jabours will be attended with a great deal of difficulty and expense.
Feb. 28, James Baker to-day confessed to a twelfth murder.
This occurred, he said, in the course of a pistol battle with gunmen in Detroit several months ago. Details of the affair were self-confessed killings. many instances he declared he administered poison simply to watch the react-jon. Police have not been able to confirm many of his killings, but they have found enough apparent substantiation to keep them busy searching for more, and alienists have declared him' sane—United Press,
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