POISONER CAUGHT
AFTER MANY* CRIMES. [United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] NEW YORK, Feb. 20. A Detroit message states:—The arrest to-day of Janies Barker, aged i.o years, revealed one of the strangest and crauiest of murders by one who. has poisoned eight persons .coldbloodedly in various cities of the world, from New York to Bombay, .wan i la. and Hamburg, and has shot and killed his stepfather. He had worked at every trade from a sailor and farmhand to assistant in a chemical laboratory, and, when caught, he had enough poison in his room to destory one thousand persons. The crime which, resulted in his undoing was that of forcing poison down the throat of a night watchman in a New York building in 1928. He has been sought by detectives oyer since. He has confessed that lie did not kill for vengeance or anger, a,though lie said that, lie had quarrelled with his stepfather. He declared: "I killed to watch the effects of the poison. Anyone who was around when the impulse seized me would die.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1930, Page 5
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