Cultural References
The crime that led to Baker's conviction and military discharge may have inspired the 1894 pornographic novel Raped on the Railway: a True Story of a Lady who was first ravished and then flagellated on the Scotch Express.
Elements of the same incident are suggested by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes short story The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans.
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