They were promptly bound and gagged at gunpoint.īoth were very grateful that their lives had been spared. He also had two distinctive tattoos, a dagger and a snake.īaker’s former captives, who were delivering a load of nerve gas to the lab, explained to the police that they had walked in on the scene after Gaw had been murdered. He was known for his signature stunt, the almost superhuman ability to tear phonebooks in half. “Texas Jim” Baker, Miami News, August 3, 1930.īaker, a former Guggenheim employee who had stopped working in the lab just three weeks before Gaw was hired, was a colorful and well-known figure in this industrial section of uptown Manhattan. The prime suspect was a former submarine crewman named “Texas Jim” Baker. Gaw, 29, of 163 West 84 th Street, an assistant in the lab, had been forced to drink cyanide before his death. 3171 10th Avenue, scene of the Henry Gaw murder.
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On the morning of DecemNew York Police responded to an emergency call at the Guggenheim Brothers metallurgical laboratory on 202 nd Street and Tenth Avenue.Īrriving at the scene investigators discovered that a lab worker had been murdered and two truck drivers had narrowly escaped death.
When this mania seizes me, I want to kill the nearest person to me.” –excerpt from “Texas Jim” Baker’s murder confession.
“ I had a periodical desire to poison human beings and in killing them in this manner, I derive a certain mental satisfaction.
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