CRIME: 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...

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