Show 1 4 I ij 1 k 4 Yr T I 11 i j ot I I iL I i ik k S SI Sf 4 J f T 1 4 I p I s J t I I I j t j c 4 1 4 R L r I 11 i 1 4 If i Associated Press I I I Slain Bankin Heir Hek and Wife IG D Baker heir of a New York banking family fam- fam lam fam I ily who was found beside his wrecked Jeep with sith a pistol wound in his head is shown with ith his wife wiCe the former lormer Alicia Carral of Mexico Cit City Banking Heir Killed G GOn On Florida Estate f TALLAHASSEE Fla Jan 18 IS INS The INS The most modern ime detection methods of the F FBI B I were pressed into action in an effort to solve sove the slaying of multimillionaire Gren Baker on a predawn jeep ride with a car hop through hi hii family's acre estate Tallahassee authorities frankly baffled by scores of details 1 which dont don't jibe in the death I of the year old New York banking heir and wartime bomb er pilot appealed to the F If B BI I after admittedly getting nowhere nowhere nowhere no no- where in a hour 24 tion After a coroners coroner's inquest ruled I out neither murder nor suicide Florida authorities I 1 Sent the death gun to the I F FBI B I. I 2 Ordered the weapon checked for fingerprints 3 Combed the death scene with scores of oC men to find the thc possible missing bullet which may provide provide pro pro- vide the final clue to the young socialites socialite's death 4 Ordered tests of the hands of the dead man and his three companions to determine which of them had fired a a. gun within the past 48 hours 5 Prepared to ask federal authorities authorities authorities au au- au- au to check Nassau assau in the I Bahamas to find out just who Bakers Baker's companions were before he took a plane and flew back to Florida a few hours before he met methis methis methis his death Discounts Suicide Angle In New York George F. F Baker Jr Grenville's brother said flatly I he did not believe that suicide I See Page 6 Column 5 Bank Heir Dies i es In r Accident Continued from Page Pago One Idea could be entertained at all The brother told the New York Journal-American Journal One thing Is sure Bure and that is that my brother was a light-hearted light person and never morose or despondent d The older Baker said he and his wife spent Christmas with Grenville at the Florida plantation and the young man was In excellent excellent excellent ex ex- spirits at the time I With the millionaire New Yorker when he died with a bullet through his head was a pert year old divorcee a brunet car hop at a In drive-In restaurant In a car just ahead were Floyd Whiddon convict ex-convict tavern keeper described as an inveterate bootlegger bootlegger bootlegger boot boot- legger In dry Tallahassee Whiddon's Whiddon's Whid- Whid dons don's wife and their small son Riding With Car Hop The Tho youthful scion of one of ot the nations nation's wealthiest banking families families families fam fam- was riding with Mrs Thelma Griffin year old divorcee who worked as a waitress in a Tallahassee Tallahassee Tallahassee Talla Talla- hassee in drive when the accident occurred The young car hop was released by the jury after she told her story of the crash I Mrs Griffin said young young- Baker was following Whiddon don and his I family to the main road Monday morning when he lost sight of Whiddon She said he pulled out outa a pistol and fired a shot into the theair theair air nir to attract his friends friend's atten atten- tion When Whiddon failed to hear the shot Mrs Griffin said Baker stepped on the gas and the Jeep j I ran into a ditch She said she was slightly Injured injured in injured In- In I and knocked unconscious and that Baker was dumped on onI I the ground in the middle of or the road Races Down Road Mrs Griffin related that she was frightened when she re regained regained regained re- re gained consciousness and raced down the road to tell Whiddon who was waiting at the main road for Baker The car hop told the jury that when she and Whiddon returned I I to the scene Bakers Baker's body was propped up against fig a tree with a I pistol lying near by One shot had been fired from the weapon I She said she could not explain how the body was moved j Baker was heir with his brother I George to the estate of his father the late George T. T Baker who was former board chairman of the First National bank I The younger Baker attended St. St Pauls Paul's school at Concord N N. N H. H and was in the class of 1914 1944 at Harvard university before entering enterIng enter enter- Ing the U. U S S. S army air force during enter j the war He married Alicia Carral Car Car- ral of oC Mexico City on Feb 28 1913 1013 despite strong parental op op- op- op position His grandfather George F F. F Baker Baher was a founder of the First National Bank of ot New York and was and Co associated with n J J. J To P p p- Mat MatThe The Baker I 11 slate estate in one of or the tho best k known norm in Guests the entertained there site eluded the have hae Duke a and nd d DUCh b. b Windsor uch aa Cl j |