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known. Some people have expressed the opinion that, through the multiplicity of deals and transactions that Gilpatric made, many of them believed to be under sudden pressure, and the fact that he fired a bullet into his head and is totally blind, he may not be able to recollect the details of his. manipulations. Seeks Brother's Help It is understood that Receiver George M. Coffin of the First National Bank has already taken steps to secure information from Gilpatric and has requested the former cashier's brother, Attorney Walter Gilpatrie, of New York, to go to Atlanta and try to get a statement of what was done with the $200,000 worth of Liberty bonds that should have been delivered to the state treasury in 1919, but according to the receiver were not. Attorney Gilpatric, it is said, has promised to make the trip to Atlanta. Baker Reads In the meantime Guy L. Baker, assistant cashier of the bank, remains a federal prisoner in the Hartford jail. He is treated the same as any federal prisoner and is said to spend much of his time reading. Baker has never had anything to say about his wife and when ever her name has been mentioned has only said: "Why drag her into it." According to a dispatch from St Petersburg, Fla., to the Hartford Courant, Mrs. Baker is eking out an existence by working part time in a cafeteria in that city and appears indifferent to the position her husband is in. In contradiction to this story is the statement of Mrs. Baker's sister, a telegraph operator in Southbridge who is quoted as saying that her sister is a patient in a St. Petersburg hospital suffering from a nervous breakdown So far as can be learned none of Mrs Baker's Putnam friends have heard directly from her. It is understood that any attempt that may have been made to raise the $20,000 bond under which Baker is being held for the federal court has been abandoned.