New York, May 23, Sentence of from 40 years to life was imposed to-day upon James Baker, the confessed murderer of a New York watchman named Henry Gaw and self-styled "pleasure killer" with a trail of murders stretching round the world. 2 Police told the court that it had been impossible sto corroborate Baker's tales. of other murders alleged to have been committed in the Philippines and elsewhere.
In ov void the of a.ecourt trial and, on onder to dodge the electri chair, Baker had consented to plea gullly to second degree murder in the Gaw case.—United Press,
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