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Show COAST OFFICER TO GET BAKER : John Henry Baker, serving a fifty-day fifty-day sentence in the countj jail for petty larceny, will be handed over to Officers from Oakland, Cal.. where he is wanted for breaking parole from the Preston industrial school, according to members of the sheriffs depart J mout. Baker, according to California dispatches, broke hi parole from the school where he was coniined after he confessed to having particlputcil in the murder of Mre. Emily Turner. 77 years of age, August 31, 1917 Permission Permis-sion lor the release of the man to the ("'.illfomia officers has been obtained from Gorrnor Bamberger, ii was said. GIVEN So nAvc Baker was arrested here two weeks ago after having been caught, in ihe ad of Stealing parcels from -an auto .'nubile standing on Washington ave nu-. He was booked undrr the name ol W M afcMasters. Ho pleaded guilty anil wn8 sentenced to sr e fif ly days. Bnkei i connection wiih th- Turner murder in California wa established sol. ly upon nngerprints taken by iif-p. ui Sheriff Hick Wootton who sent the fingerprint classification lo all part ot the country Had not the printr, been takn and sent out it is probable ihat ihe man would hae served hie tipie here and then b-rn turned loose. ieputy Sheriff Wootton yesterday t(cn,t'ii a telegram from Probation Offlcei Snedigar of Oakland, saying that the man was wanted there for breaking parole and request was made that Baker be held here until an officer of-ficer can arrive to take him bad; to the coast. CONVICTED OF MURDER OAKLAND, Cal., Dec. 2$ William : HMi,,. .. i.. ii i i ii fin. i bkmm Die, im year oid oo . Who is being held by Ihe police of I Ogden Utah, tollowing ihs arre9t on ' petty charges, Is believed by Oakland' police tu be Jack Baker, of Oakland, who coufersed according to the po-; I lice, he had killed Mr. Emily Tur-I ner in August, HUT. Jack Baker and James Fee, both 17' .ears old. were tried and convicted of i having k.lled Mrs. Turner, who was ' 77 years old. Baker was sent to Pres ton. (California) industrial school and t was freed upon parole. It was an-' QOUnoad a parole officer would be sen, j to Ogden to identify the boy held' there, if possible. |