John Baker

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Los Angeles Herald (Los Angeles, California) - Sept 24, 1892

SENTENCES COMMUTED
Governor Markham Makes Two Convicts Happy

SACRAMENTO, Sept. 23 - …

The governor has also commuted the sentence of John Baker, convicted of a crime against nature, in San Francisco, in 1888, and sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment, to eight years, because the prison directors deem the sentence excessive.

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