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Trial Dramatized as Baker Affair Captivates Virginia
Almanac notes show a crowded court in Wythe County as the Baker trial intensifies. Prosecutors claim Dr. Baker poisoned wife Mrs. Baker with arsenic, pointing to letters and testimony about adulterous overlap with Mrs. Gilmer, while defense argues lack of corpus delicti and reasonable doubt.
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Mr. Butt
Mr Butt
der. Baker
Almanoy
Wysor Monay
Mon
Burk
Warren Hastings
Blair
Col. Summers
Cal
Summer
Gail
Murde
Appus Claudius
Ronn Decemvir
Vireginia
Henry VII
England
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Henry
Rendy
James Davis
Mra. Baker
Grayson County
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Wythe
Lucy Baker
Tapa
Mama
John Burson
Commonwealth
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Winmeell
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Dr. Baker
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Cecile
Taylor
Col
D. F. Bailey
Baldwin
Wanouthin
Washington County
John Alexander Preston Baker
Nils Arma
Brother Carr
Wyndhamilmer
Vom Polaski
Maple Grove
Gilmer's
Nannin
Jessie
Clark
Moses
God
Mr. Bailey
C. J. White
Angel
Rogers
Graves
Ollce
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