Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wayne W. Baker, 27, of Yuma, Ariz. entered the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a law clerk. Recently he decided to be a G-man, so he took the Bureau's three-month training course for investigators. Having graduated, he was assigned to the bureau at Kansas City, Mo. Last week he was at work on his first important case. He and two other agents went to the post office at Topeka, hung around for three days waiting for Alfred Power (alias Gerald Lewis alias Thomas Malley), New York bank robber, to claim a package at the general delivery...
...Manhattan, Thomas Malley had registered a black Plymouth coupé, license 4Y-7607. That was the car in which a man had been making calls at the post office in Topeka. If he came back, the general delivery clerk was to give the tip-off to Agent Baker. On the third noon of Agent Baker's vigil, the clerk gave the signal...
...Agent Baker stepped up, drew his gun and ordered Alfred Power to put up his hands. Blam! A bullet struck Agent Baker in the back, he spun around to face the bandit's unnoticed companion, Robert Suhay, began to fire. Another bullet struck him in the chest, two in the legs. He crumpled. An innocent bystander, hit in the foot, flopped under a writing table beside a scared little Negro woman. Twenty rounds were exchanged before the two bandits fled, vanished...
Players on the Harvard team were Riecken, goal; Witherspoon, pt.; White (Tonner), cp.; Magurn, 1st def.; Cushman (Sullivan, Damon), 2nd def.; Campion (Blanchard, Taliaferre, Downey), c.; Scott (Elrod, Baker), 2nd At.; Hunsaker (Hammond) 1st At.; Hartstone (Flynn, Cleveland, Sheperd), out home; Wood, in home...
...Harvard lineup--Riechen, g; Witherspoon, pt; White, c. pt; Magurn, ld; Cushman, 2d; Campion, c; Scott, la; Hunsacker, 2a; Hammond, o.h; Wood, lh. Harvard Substitutes--Tonner, Dorman. Taliaferro, Sullivan, Blanchard, Baker, Hartstone, Shepard, Elrod, Downey, Cleveland. Referee--Dugan...