Word: bassette
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...James Eugene Bassett of Annapolis, Md., just out of the U. S. Naval Academy, was transferred to the Pacific Fleet at Manila. He drove across the U. S. to Seattle. There he put an advertisement in the newspapers to sell his car. An unsmiling 63-year-old woman named Mary Eleanor Smith and her crippled son, Earl, answered the advertisement. James Bassett drove out to their house. Mrs. Smith engaged him in conversation while Earl hobbled up behind and hit him over the head with a hammer. Then they cut him into pieces, burned part, buried part, and scattered...
Thus, last week in the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla, Mary Eleanor Smith told the story. The murder of James Bassett was the most celebrated West Coast crime of the 1920's. Mrs. Smith and her son Earl were picked up in Oakland, Calif, in Bassett's car. The fragmentary corpse was never found though much excavation was done about Mrs. Smith's premises. The trial of Mrs. Smith was the first in the U. S. in which the prosecution used the lie-detector and "truth serum." Mrs. Smith and Earl, who were rather simple people...
...Chorus: T. D. S. Bassett 1G, C. Brinkman, W. Burt '38, E. D. Chase '38, P. Morse '38, F. Watklns, instructor and tutor, K. White '39; the Misses M. McCovern, M. Greiner, M. Brott, M. Kaufman, S. Merill, H. Taylor, E. Glackall, Hutchinson...
Charles Haven Goodwin Scholarship of $400, for study of the classics, to Edward L. Bassett 1G, of Marblehead...
Donald M. Allison, Jr.; Cortlandt A. Bassett; Herbert G. Bradlee; James J. Brady. Jr.; Herbert F. Cahoon; Alan D. Conger; Gerald E. Deakin; Frederic S. Dean, Jr.; Dwight Dickinson; Harry H. Donnally, Jr.; Reaumur S. Donnally; David S. Grey; James W. Harrison; Theodore L. Hazlett; Jr.; James A. Hermann; Edwin Hewitt; Harry F. Hinckley, Jr.; Gordon L. Hough; William T. Hull; William C. Hurtt; George J. Lee; William B. Locke; John H. Loeb; George B. Lyons; Frank L. McLanathan; Edwin W. Peterson; George S. Phalen; Thomas M. Richardson; William H. Rines; Daniel Sciarra; Robert J. Seder; Edwin S. Seldon; Ernest...