Confronted by his 73-year-old mother who charged that he had murdered Mr. James E. Bassett, Annapolis Academy officer, in 1928, DeCasto Earl Mayer, headed and described as an habitual criminal today denied taking part and made serdonie replies for thirty minute:
The State prepared to prosecute both Mayer and his mother. Mrs eaner Smith, for the murder Bassett.
Smith, in a letter to Mr. J riley, warden of the Washingt State Penitentiary where she ing sentence, wrote that her son had murdered Mr. Bassett and in dicated that he might have killed others.
Her son is serving a life sentence Both were arrested in 1928 for possessing Mr, "Basett's car after his} disappearance in Seattle on Septem hi 1, 1928, and they ere convicted of larceny. Mrs, Sraith was marked for release on May 9 of this yea] United Press.
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