I have no proof but John's full name is probably John Lafayette Thomas Baker.
Found online in the Bastrop County Texas website:
BASTROP ADVERTISER
Newspaper Abstracts
01 January 1876 - 26 Feb 1881
15 February 1879
More on the murder of Exum HOLLAMON of Seguin who came to his death on the night of 27
Jan. by 4 mortal blows on the head with a blunt instrument. John T. BAKER was arrested
for the crime. He is a relative of Gus and Lafayette BAKER, prominent merchants of
Seguin. Both BAKER and HOLLAMON had been seeing Miss Lizzie SHORT and it is
their rivalry, it is supposed, which caused the murder. Two other suspects of the crime are
Brily[?] DUGGAN and Charlie BENNETT, but they have not been arrested as of yet.
02 August 1879
John T. BAKER, under indictment for the murder of young HOLLOMAN, wasshot in the head
and killed while at a camp meeting about 3 miles east of Seguin.
John L. T. Baker |
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