Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-07-27 | Page 3 | Discovery of Bones Spurs Bassett Hunt

m OF i BONES SPURS BASSETT HUNT Effort Made to Solve Naval Officers Officer's Disappearance 1 S S. S L. L Thief Involved it Dr By A Associated run Preil I r EVERETT EVEREIT Wash July 27 7 27 Recovery cry ery from the wat waters rs of or Puget Sound of ot a B burlap s sack k containing the bon bonat bones bone of at a human skeleton today spurred officers to renew their efforts to solve the mysterious disappearance of ot James Eu Eugene ene Bassett former Maryland Maryland Mary land naval l officer who vho dropped from here In September 1928 The sack sewed across the top with galvanized gal wire contained practically all aU the bones of a skeleton except the skull and collar bones IREA TREATED TED WITH VIT ACID The bones officials said apparently had been removed from a R burial place and trea treated d with acid or quicklime supposedly In an unsuccessful effort to destroy them Dr H. H H. H Kretzler pronounced the remains those of a man A number of ot articles Including a a. amoss amoss moss agate and a brass knob such as I may have been used on a jewelry case I were found In fn the sack The fisherman fisher I ImM man mM who found the sack at Edmunds yesterday disappeared after turning it over to Snohomish count county officials I Following Bassett's Bassetts disappearance I IDec Dec Decasto to Earl Mayer and Mary Eleanor Eleanor Elea nor Smith his mother were vere arrested In jn Oakland CaL In possession of Bas Bassett's Bassetts Bassetts Bassett's sett's Edt's aut automobile mobile and other effects I ITh Th They y were returned d to Seattle and and convicted of grand larceny Mayer subsequently was sentenced t to life Ute Imprisonment In the state penitentiary at Walla Walla a san habitual i l criminal Mrs Smith Is serving a R five to year eight year sentence In III the same Institution