Benson Baker
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| Residence |
6 Cross Street, Islington [1865] 53 Great James Street, Lower Grove, Marylebone [1866] | ||||||||
| Occupation | medical | ||||||||
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Old Bailey 1868:
BENSON BAKER . I am an M.R.C.S., of 94, Lisson Grove—the male prisoner was in my service in October, 1866, under the name of Arthur Dowdall, until about the middle of December—I had a great many opportunities of seeing him write—I believe this letter to be his writing. I know the female prisoner—she was represented to be his wife.
Thomas Hill. Q. Is not your name George Benson Baker? A. Yes; I usually give my name merely as Benson—I have not dropped the George since I came to Marylebone—I had a shop in St. James's Street about eighteen months—I had four assistants during that time, you were the fourth—I did not once take off my coat and challenge one of them to fight—I stated at the Mansion House that I discharged you for getting drunk and stealing a blanket, and also for breaking open my till—the blanket was a portion of your bedding, but belonged to me; you had not possession of the key of the till, my brother had—it was left in the till during the day—the night you left my service yo'u threatened to shove a pallet knife through my ribs—you were drunk, and I ordered you out of the place—you would not go, and I pushed you out—you were taken before a Magistrate and bound in 50l.—I afterwards allowed you to return and redeem your character, but you behaved so badly I could not keep you—I never signed a false certificate for a lunacy patient—the cause of your leaving me was not your accusing me of having killed a patient by removing a tumour—it was because you robbed me, got drunk, abused me, and threatened to take my life.
