Life and trial of Dr. Abner Baker, Jr : (a monomaniac), who was executed October 3, 1845, for the alleged murder of his brother-in-law, Daniel Bates : including letters and petitions in favor of a pardon, and narrative of the circumstances attending his execution, etc. etc. / by C.W. Crozier ; trial and evidence by A.R. M'Kee.
- Crozier, C. W.
- Date:
- 1846
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Life and trial of Dr. Abner Baker, Jr : (a monomaniac), who was executed October 3, 1845, for the alleged murder of his brother-in-law, Daniel Bates : including letters and petitions in favor of a pardon, and narrative of the circumstances attending his execution, etc. etc. / by C.W. Crozier ; trial and evidence by A.R. M'Kee. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![THE TRIAL ABNEB, BAKER, M. D. FOR KILLING DANIEL BATES, IN CLAY COUNTY, IN SEPTEMBER, 1844, On Monday, the 7th day of July, according to previous appoint- merit, the Hon Tunstel Quaeles, Judge of the 15th Judicial Dis- trict, opened Court, in the Court-house at Manchester, Clay county, Kentucky, for the trial of Dr. Abner Baker, on the following in- dictment: [For the indictment, see Appendix.] The accused was brought to the bar in custody, &c, and plead Not GcriLTY, and the attorney for the Commonwealth joined issue. The Commonwealth was represented by William H. Moore, Pros- ecuting Attorney; Col. W. H. Caperton, Silas Woodson, and ■ Caldwell. The accused by Hon. George Robertson, John Kincaid, John Moore, William Garrard, James-Hays, and Einsworth. A venire facias having issued to the Sheriff of Clay county, he returned a parol to the Court; and, thereupon, the counsel for the accused moved the Court to set aside the whole panel of the Jury, upon ihe ground that George Stivers, Deputy for Alexander White, Sheriff of Clay county, had summoned the whole panel, and that he was one of the executors of Daniel Bates, dee'd, and had joined in offering a reward for the accused—which motion the Court sustained. And thereupon, Anderson B. Clark and Job Allen were chosen Elissors, and appointed and directed to return a panel by the next morning, 9 o'clock. Tuesday Morning, 8th July, 1845. Court met according to adjournment. The Elissors returned a panel of twenty-four names, out of which nine Jurors were chosen, and Court adjourned.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21112058_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
