Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 27 Trial in Seattle Will Revive Baffling Northwest Crime Is He Guilty? A 3 Jwil M Jury Finds 6Rock’ Prisoners Guilty Spares Tlieir Lives Convicts Expect to Spend Rest of Days i DeCasto Earl Mayer and Mother To Face Court Monday 1D38 In Isolation at Alcatraz Prison jury of business men SatJames C Lucas and two convicts Alcatraz convicted young urday Rufus Franklin of murdering a guard during an escape attempt but refused to send them to death in the lethal gas chamber & 22 The result was had another life sentence addedto and Limerick at or near the saw just before the killing the two already standing against filingtheroom defense produced a bloody him and an indeterminate amount but work jacket which the prosecution of time was appended to the had withheld from evidence and Lucas which was identified stretch the as Pettijohn’s is doing for Texas bank robbery and automobile theft In the few minutes between pronouncement of the life sentences and their start back to Alcatraz in shackles the two convicts had time to tell reporters that they expected to spend the rest of their lives in isolation on ’The Rock” where the government keeps 300 or more of its most dangerous prisoners But their attorney Harold Faulk' ner who contended the government’s witnesses from Alcatraz made “a mess” of the prosecution : reiterated his argument that FrankIfrfTTtrtrrj- fn lin and Lucas did not kill the guard DeCasto Earl Mayer Faces Royal C Cline and that the federal case trial in puzzling slaying prosecutors had fallen far short SAN FRANCISCO Nov 26 (AP)— A For Annapolis Man’s Murder SEATTLE Nov 26 (AP) — The Pacific northwest’s most baffling mystery — what happened to James Eugene Bassett of Annapolis Md here 10 years ago— will be revived Monday when DeCasto Earl Mayer and his mother Mary Eleanor Smith stand trial on first degree murder charges Bassett’s body never was found sentence as an habitual criminal 18 1929 His mother won despite periodic searches by hun- February new a was convicted again trial dreds of men The absence of the and- started a five to eight year corpus delicti (generally considered term that spring necessary to prove death) will be Throughout the intervening years a legal issue of the case the pair evaded trial or Bassett’s So will Mrs Smith’s confession death until authorities announced state the last by reported patrol Mrs Smith had confessed due to pring efforts of a fellow convict Mrs Claims Proof Helen Thompson Padelford FawProsecutor B Gray Warner con-- " cett a clever confidence woman tends the Jate can prove Bassett and State Patrolman Joe McCauwas slain his body dismembered ley who posed as a clergyman D Colvin who was and hidden and that Mrs Smith Then Ewing was sane when she confessed im- prosecutor In 1928 revealed he obtained similar confessions from plicating her son and Mrs Smith by the use Bassett's sister wife of Commo- Mayer dore Theodore H Winters then at of a “truth serum” and the lie dethe Puget Sound navy yard at tector operated by Leonard Keeler Bremerton Wash reported Sep- of Northwestern university tember 10 1928 Bassett had been Evidence Banned missing since September 5 three Use of this evidence however was days before he was to have sailed banned for Manila and a civilian post with by a court order obtained the navy He was reported to have on Mayer’s behalf dropped from sight after coming Mayer 43 represented by to Seattle to sell his blue roadster Milton Heiman contends to Mayer Mayer and his mother then his mother was crazy and he does Mrs known as Mrs French were ar- not know Bassett is dead rested in Oakland Cal three days Smith 72 counseled by Attorney later with the car Bassett’s watch Warren Hardy has pleaded innocent She pleaded insanity also was found under the seat They contended they purchased as an attack on the voluntary nathe car but were convicted of grand ture of the confessions allegedly larceny the following December IS obtained shortly before her prison Mayer went to prison under life release last spring - court-appoint- that-Frankl- in a m — Strike Ends n Under Agreement 26 DETROIT Nov (UP)— The Chevrolet Gear and Axle company forced to curtail operations because of a strike at plant No 1 will resume normal operations Monday officials said Saturday night Approximately 200 men sat down on their jobs at the No 1 plant Frl day They evacuated Saturday morning under an agreement whereby their protest against suspension of a shop steward Will be negotiated sit-do- of se proving Cline was beaten to death in the saw room of the prison’s carpenter shop last May 23 shortly before Qii WONDERFUL TOY GIFTS Pay Next Year ar Tf Sit-Dow- fcti VaIm Quality construction that usually costs more Regular value $13 Yearly Special 95 Down— $1 Month They’re built just like real baby carriages —half-rounfiber doll carriage — sliding d diaper drawer under carriage body — rubber tired artillery wheels — adjustable reclining back rest for comfort— made like a real baby carriage— woven in smart Jacquard design sides— hand brake ex-act- Lucas Franklin and another pris oner Thomas Limerick climbed to the roof of the building and rushed a guard tower in an attempt to flee the island The tower guard Harold P Stites fatally shot Limerick drilled Franklin through both shoulders with rifle bullets and cowed Lucas while other guards raced to the spot and ended the threat Star witness for the government Texas Mail Robber Convict Milton Petti john placed "Franklin Lucas ly for parking doll carriage t Other Smart Fiber Doll Carriages Priced at $195 $395 $595 As Baby Rides So Rides the Dolly DOLL CARRIAGE Two Positions Reversed Low Down- - 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