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Show ROBBERY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER. Startllne and Desperate Experience or a Man From Kansas. St. Joseph, Mo., Aug.7. J. J. Baker, a prominent attorney of Troy, Kan., and a cousin of Calvin Wyatt of this city, is lying in the Knsworth hospital suffering from the effects of a fiendish attempt to take his life. Yesterday morning about 2 o'clock, as a switch engine on the Kansas City road rounded a curve coming through the yards, a switchman who was riding on the footboard foot-board saw tho body of a man lying directly di-rectly across the track. With great presence of mind he jumped from the engine as it slowed tip and pulled the body off the rails just in time to prevent it from being ground to pieces. The man was taken to a neighboring switch house where he was examined, and it was found that his right arm had been severed from tho body, and that his head was badly injured." He shortly revived and gave his. name, and at 10 o'clock yesterday morning was able to tell the story of his injuries. Sunday afternoon he visited several saloons in the vicinity of the union depot.drinking heavily. At one of the saloons, he does not remember which, he got into a conversation con-versation with a stranger, and together they visited other saloons, so that by night he was considerably under the inlluenee of liquor. Tho last he remembers remem-bers is that while walking down Sixth street, at a point where the street was rather dark, the stranger suddenly stepped behind him, and tlr next instant ho received a crushing crush-ing blow, and knew no more. His idea of what followed is that the stranger, alter going through his pockets and getting what money he had, dragged him to tho railroad yards, a short distance away, and laid him across tho rails, thinking that tho first train that came along would griud him to pieces and obliterate all traces of the assault. It is supposed that a special train went through tho yards shortly before Baker was found, struck him and threw him to ouo side after cutting off his arm, and that in the struggle of partially regaining consciousness con-sciousness he rolled tack on tho tracks. |