Flora Baker
Kentucky Post, Monday, 17 January 1910, page 1
Mae Baker, 20, bade Frank Morgan, restaurant keeper of Cincinnati, good night and turned to go up to the stairway leading to her home on the third floor, 408 York st. Newport, shortly after midnight Monday morning, when she charges, John Losey, a former motorman and a rejected suitor, followed her.
As she reached her doorway, Losey seized her. The girl was struck with a slingshot and her right arm was broken. "Now will you marry me? Losey demanded. An instant later, he drew a revolver and pointing it in her face, fired. The shot tore away the girl's front teeth, passed around the jawbone and lodged in her neck.
Mrs. Baker, hearing the struggle and the shot, rushed to her daughter's assistance. As the door swung open she reached out to grab the revolver. At that instant he pulled the trigger and the mother's hand was almost torn away. Isabel Baker, 17, who had been asleep, was awakened by the shot and ran into the hallway. The man was on the point of attacking her when neighbors in the building rushed to the scene and the assailant fled. The two women were taken to Speers Hospital in Dayton. The daughter is in critical condition. The mother's hand will have to be amputated.
Losey denied having been out of his home an denied having been at the Baker home. Chief Lickert put the man through the third degree. Losey was brought before Miss Isabel Baker. "That's the man!" she exclaimed. Confronted by this positive statement, Losey still maintained a denial. He was locked up on a charge of shooting to kill.
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Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 18 January 1910, page 5
The condition of Mrs. Flora Baker, who was shot by John Losey at her home, 408 York st. Newport, early Monday morning is reported in critical condition by the surgeons at Speers Hospital. Mae Baker, 20, daughter of Mrs. Baker, who was a victim of Losey's wrath, is improved and out of danger.
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Kentucky Post, Saturday, 22 January 1910, page 5
Speers Hospital officials report as unchanged the condition of Mrs. Flora Baker, who was shot Sunday night at her home on York st. Newport by John Losey, former street car motorman. Her daughter who was shot also, still continues to improve and will be able to leave the hospital within a few days.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Sunday, 30 January
1910, page 21
The funeral of Mrs. Flora Baker, whose death resulted from
gunshot wounds inflicted, it is alleged, by John Losey, whom the police are
holding on a charge of murder, took place yesterday afternoon, services being
held at the mortuary chapel of the John J Radel Company. Rev White,
Superintendent of the Bethel, officiat4ed and the body was interred at Evergreen
Cemetery.
Losey will have to face an additional charge of malicious shooting and wounding, he having shot Miss May Baker, a daughter of the dead woman, because he was jealous of her receiving the attention of Frank Morgan. Miss Baker has been discharged from Speers Hospital, having recovered from her wounds. It is not likely that Losey will be given an examining trial in the County Court as the regular term of the February grand jury will commence February 7.
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Kentucky Post, Monday, 31 January 1910, page 7
John Losey, charged with the murder of Flora Baker and the malicious shooting of her daughter, Mae, 20, will be before Judge Buten, of the Newport Police Court tomorrow morning on the latter charge for a preliminary hearing and will be taken before County Judge Hawkins on the murder charge. Losey is accused of killing Mrs. Baker and wounding her daughter in their apartments, 408 York st. Newport, Jan 16.
Losey, the accused since his incarceration in Newport Jail, is showing signs of insanity. A number of his friends have called to see him but he failed to recognize them.
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Kentucky Post, Monday, 14 March 1910, page 7
The trial of John Losey, on a charge of shooting and killing Mrs. Flora Baker January 16 last, at the latter's apartment on York st. Newport, will be commenced in the Campbell Circuit Court tomorrow morning. Losey will be represented by Attorneys Blaine McLaughlin and Howard Benton. Losey, on the night of the killing, the police say, called to see a daughter of Mrs. Baker and when she refused to encourage his attention, he began shooting at her.
Mrs. Baker rushed to her daughter's aid and was shot, it was alleged, in the back by Losey. The bullet entered her spine and the wound caused her death several days later. Losey is also under indictment, charged with shooting to kill May Baker, daughter of the woman it is alleged he killed.