Show iV iyer yer Believed Maniac Unable to I Crimes Writer States ATT Wash Dec 28 8 UP theor theory that Earl DeC DeCa r. r C former r Utah convict and ted 1 slayer laer 1 hr of oC James Eugene Pit t t. t Is w Is a peculiar type t pe of ot ma- ma I I unable to remember tho time details of or his is IH advanced rl In an article ar ar- ar tide in the tho Seattle Sunday Times For 1001 that leason tho writer Paul Gra Gray said bald the mystery of oC tho the ills ills- ot of Bassett Basett a fL wealthy Baltimore BallImore Md man maim will ncy never r rha be hs explained For a u. YC year H authorities author author- have ha sought ht body The Time tame tamo cloudy bruin brain the Times said bald v will shield forever th the they m mysterious mys mys- disappearances of or Mrs Ernest Ern Em- est from th the homo home of Mis Mary 1 Ellen Smith Mayers Mayer's mother at Anaconda Mont 1 In February I 1921 and of or Ole Olo Lai Larson son who v met Mayer 1 on busine business as in in November 19 1920 O Similar of ot four other during Iho llio past el eight eight- lit lit- cell oen years cari lIa have 0 thrown suspicion on oil Ma Mayer er Iho tho ho article 2 bald sald The faint taint Impression of oC a a. brutal revolting crime which remains remain on his distorted d mind no clue to th tha riddle Where la hi Bassetts Bassett's bod body If it continued Earl DeCastro Mayer Maer in the writers opinion Is h Insane Int ina in- in t sane ane a n homicidal maniac of or the known mown to tt science as aa a a. dual 1 II Mayer l and hl his mother another were cro arrested arrested ar- ar rested in Oakland Cal shortly after Bassett d disappeared They were ere in Iii possession e lon of the Maryland mans man's auto and other and ciu convicted of or grand orand larceny larCell Sin Since co Mayers Mayer's t ancl for hair bm- glary H at tIie tho 1150 ugo of or 18 anon moio than halt hale of ot tho thao JS yea years eal re been spent in Lii Jail Henry Clay Agnew Homey attorney for tor Jl Mayer r. r Js Is t quoted as saying oC of tho the j Continued r on fi fl th I MAYER BELIEVED MANIAC SLAYER Continued from pago I 1 criminal lIe Ho could 1 not r remember member after atter hours of coaching enough to tomake tomake tomako make mako any arty connected statement I twice or even eyen make mako a pretense a of remembering Mrs Smith Mayers Mayer's apparently cold blooded mother who has con hAI-con- convinced convinced con con- vinced the writer th that t she has no Knowledge of ot th the disposition of ot Bassetta Das Bas B setta body has no illusions about her benighted son Yet she will tl fight ht to the death for his Interest Mayers Mayer's father wn wits wila said Bald to have died In an Insane asylum r a rAnd 9 the tho And this Um I I mind of or a child child child-a a lunatic Jio com mits mils milsa a a. crime and then forgets |