Baker Heirs

Behind a dignified, sad-eyed man of 63 last week closed the doors of McNeil Island Federal Prison in Puget Sound. His sentence was six years imprisonment, a $2,500 fine. His slim, 43-year-old wife, sentenced to two years and a $500 fine, collapsed in court, was removed to a hospital. Thus ended the swindling career of Seattle's Mr. & Mrs. William Renick, promoters of the Baker Inheritance Associations.

Thousands of U. S. citizens claim an interest in the estate of a German-born surveyor named Jacob Baker who settled in Pennsylvania in 1765. Ruling version of the Baker saga is that Surveyor Baker, granted land in Philadelphia, leased it back for 100 years to the U. S. Government. Upon the land the Government built the Philadelphia Navy yards, post office, mint.

In 1927, when the lease expired, no Baker Heir had documents to prove the saga. Mr. & Mrs. Renick of Seattle, by claiming to possess the documents, have lived off one Baker Heir after another. A Glenview, Ill. couple supported the Renicks for ten months before they became suspicious, snooped vainly for the documents, hunted up other victims, finally had the Renicks haled into court on a charge of using the mails to defraud.

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