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rEDFORT) MAIL THTBUNE, ArEDFORD. OREOON". TTTTTRSDAT. T)ECEM"BEft B. 1938.
CONFESSIONS IN
BASSETT SLAYING
HELD ADMISSIBLE
Prison Companion of Ac
cused Woman Gives Grim
Recital of Dismember
ment As Told Last Spring
SKATTU5. Dec. 8. ( AP) Judge
Chester Batchelor ruled today con
fessions to the alnylng end dismem
bering the body of James Eugene
Bassett here 10 years ago, made by
Mrs. Mary Eleanor Smith and De
casto Earl Mayer at the state prison
last spring, were admissible as evi
dence In their first degree murder
trial.
The court barred, however, from
the Jury testimony by Btate Patrol
Bergt. Joseph McCauley, whose "cler
gyman ruse" In talking with the
73-year-old Mrs. Smith at the prison,
had been criticised and bitterly con
tested by the defense.
The first ruling permits the Jurors
to hear testimony by Mrs. Milllcent
Pawcett. penitentiary inmate, and
Warden J. M. McCauley of the
prison, who were on the stand yes
terday In the absence of the Jury
and told of the confessions of the
two.
Privilege Cited
In barring Sergeant McCauley's
testimony (he is no relation of the
warden's) the court said the privi
lege law, which bars statements by
accused persona to their physician,
attorney or minister, wss s "salu
tary one, without which no one
would be safe in confiding in one's
own doctor, minister or lawyer."
Sergeant McCauley, In the Jury's
absence, had said he purchased a
clergy mnn'fl collar and shirt before
going to the penitentiary and Mrs.
Smith had called him "father" dur
ing their Interview. He Bald his sole
purpose In the interview was to learn
where Bnssctt's body was buried.
Mrs. Smith and Decastro Ear! j
Mayer. 44, are being tried on first
degree murder charges In connec
tion with the disappearance of Bas
se tt. formerly of Annapolis, Md. Bas
wtt'a bddy never has been found.
Mrs, Fnwcett Regal
While the Jury was absent yester
day, Mrs. Pawcett, well-bred dnugh
ter of a Kansas City, Mo., life In
surance executive, recounted how
Mrs. Smith, In an adjoining room
at the state prison, had told her of
the Bassett slaying.
Appearing more like a dowager :
than a woman convict, Mrs. Pawcett, ,
who gave her age as 4B, used her
tortoise-shell spectacle In the manner
of a lorgnette as she parried ques
tions by the defense. She switched
ot ten fioin direct quotation of what
she said Mrs. Smith told her, Into
A third person recital, and engaged
in several verbal glve-and-tnkes with
defense counsel.
She said that after .Mrs. Smith
told her she and Mayer had killed
Busett, she detailed how the crime
was committed. On the day of the!
slaying, Mrs. Pawcett quoted Mrs.
Smith, Mayer told her to "get some
water boiling on the stove and he'd
bring Bnssett out to the house."
They tnlked about Mayer's contem
plated purchase of Bassett's robin's
egg bhie sports roadster.
Mother Left Room
"Mr. Mayer had a hammer on the
mantel," Mrs. Pawcett said Mrs
Smith told her. "He . motioned to
his mother to get out of the room
and she did. But she heard him any:
"I'm going to have your car and
I'm not going to pay you a ao-audio
cent. X want you to write this
telegram.
"As he look the telegram from
Bassett he picked up the hammer
and hit him on the back of the
head. Mrs. Smith said she came Into
the room and said: 'Earl, he's gurg
ling. He's not dead yet. You'd better j
give him another whack.' So he gave
him another whack and he was
dead.
"They put him in the bathtub and
took off his clothing and got a gnl
mnlxed pall and wash tub. Mrs.
Smith aw tasted she brought In the
pall and wash tub while her son
dismembered the body. They put the
head and hands In the pall and the
rest of the body In the tub . . .'
She then said the pair took pieces
of UnsAAtt'a body In gunny sacks and
hid rhem in the woods north of
Seattle. Mrs. Pawcett story coin
cided with that of C. O. Schmidt
roma;!
I Brand whtii you l?!ltS&?
Win Sutm
when she said Mrs. Smith told her
the car was forced from the road
and somebody in another car spoke
to them.
Scalp Removed
"Mayor had also removed Bassett's
scalp and they burned It In the
stove with the clothes." Mrs. Pawcett
continued. "They removed the teeth
and Mrs. Smith Mid they scattered
them along the road where they
never could be found."
She said Mrs. Smith sat In the
oar while Mayer took parts of the
body Into the woods. She had the
lights off but turned them on oc
casionally to let him know where
she was. She said Mayer was wearing
Bassett's overcoat,
"The head and hands still were In
the pail In the ctllftr. The next morn
ing they burnot Bassett's B.V.D.'s
in the fireplace."
This recalled testimony of Prank
Du Cette, retired detective who said
he found burned Lnderwear buttons
In r'iie fireplaco of the "little brown
house" whec the itate declares the
slaying waa committed.
Mrs. Pawcett said she reported the
confession to Mrs. Hope Nlxdorff,
former prison matron.
Other Murders Told
"Prom then on I listened to every
thing Mrs. Smith told me about all
their other murders. She told me
about the murder of Ole Larson end
Dorothy LaCasse and Dave Ran
dall ..."
Larson and Mrs. LaCasse were
slain in Montana, Randall In an
abandoned Idaho quarry, Mrs.
Smith's written confessions dis
closed. Mrs. Pawcett was called yesterday
by defense counsel Warren Hardy,
and prosecutor B, Qray Warner won
an argument to have the records
show Mrs. Pawcett must be regarded
as a defense, rather than state wit
ness, although the state subpoenaed
her. Hardy said he regarded her as
an adverse witness, however.
Questioning by Hardy brought out
that Mrs. Pawcett has a brother she
said was a Catholic father In Rome,
Italy. She denied telling Mrs. Smith
she could' aid her through her ac
quaintance with different clerics.
She also denied state patrolman Joe
McCauley appeared In cleric's garb at
the prjson In eliciting Information
from Mrs. Smith.
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fl'-ind Fnt n I My
PORTLAND. Dec. 8 E d
Holmes, 62, became Portland's 62nd
traffic fatality of the year today
when he died of Injuries received
Sunday. His automobile rammed an
embankment near the approach of
the St. Johnjs bridge.
Columbia Fogbound
ASTORIA, Ore., Deo. 8 fp) Vo$ on
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Edda, unable to proceed upstream
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up since early Wednesday,
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later Joachim Von Ribbentrop left
for Berlin after signing a no-war dec
laration with Prance, the political
writer Pertlnax wrote:
"Germany conspires against the
French empire at the very moment
when she promises to respect her con
tinental frontier."
Thousands of French students
fought police in anti-Italian demon
strations In Paris and President Al
bert Lebrun unexepectedly called
Premier Daladler for consultation.
Daladler's associates said he had
staked the life of his government on
the national defense Issue In draw
ing a line for today's new session of
parllment. Labor protests against
his decree laws for financial rehabil
itation faded as an Issue as ft nation
wide strike wave ebbed.
Tunisia In Turmoil y
Demonstrations against Italy's
campaign for French territory con
tinued in Tunisia, Prance's northern
African protectorate which has lwen
tho focal center of the strife. Offic
ials, however, reported "everything
quiet" on the border between Tun
isia and Italian Libya.
Rome newspapers coupled reports
of an Italian protest against Tunis
demonstrations with warnings Ital
ians there "would take measure of
legitimate defense."
At Lima, Peru, where the eighth
Pan-American conference opens -tomorrow,
a proposal to ban European
political propaganda was Indicated.
A series of Informal conferences
between United States Secretary of
State Cordell Hull, chief of the Amer
ican delegation, and heads of Latin
American groups, indicated the "good
neighbor policy" was being given
prime consideration.
Japan's agitations for extended
fishing rights in Siberian waters un
dtif control of Soviet Russia and the
U..VR.'e demand for payments in
connection with the sale of the Chin
ese Eajrtern Railway to Manchoukuo
In 1930 brought old troubles between
Moscow and Tokyo again to the fore.
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BUTTE, Mont, (VP) It was cold but
not that cold, said Jack Duggan, as
statnnt chief of police, m he saw two
men wearing five overcoats down the
street. After he had detained them at
city Jail, calls came In from people j
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bcls' newspaper, referring to
Mayor LaGuardia's order creat
ing a Jewish poiice squad to
guard the German consulate in
New York.
Seven Miners Die
In Slide of Rock
T RETFORD MINES, Que., Dec. 8.
(Canadian Press) Seven miners
were killed by a rock slide In the
Bell asbestos mine here two hours
after a dynamite blast last night.
Three of the bodies have been recov
ered. The men were 30 feet below the
head of the shaft, clearing away
debris of the blast, when the sudden
slide occurred. Two men were unln
Jurcd.
One body was recovered last night,
another about midnight and the
third early today after workers from
the Bell mine and two other plants
worked for hours.
Wins Clemency
PORTLAND, Dec. 8 (A) A prison
er's heroism in protecting police and
spectators was rewarded today by a
reduced sentence for burglary. Be
cause Wilfred E. Pcnkcth. 30. sub
dued a crazed man at the municipal
court more than two months ago.
Circuit Judge Louis P. Hewitt ordered
him to serve a year in the county
Jail Instead of sending him to the
penitentiary.
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mlttee what he said were pamphlets
Illustrating policies of the union. He
said they opposed the American Le
gion's suggestions for universal fin
gerprinting, the labor department's
"raid on aliens," prohibitions agatntt
Communist party use of the public
schools and the pos toff tee depart
ment's "sweeping censorship" of
fraudulent or seditious literature."
A police official's assertion Harry
Bridges, west coast C. I. O. director,
was attempting to overthrow the
United States government was ac
companied today by fresh demands
for his deportation.
Silly" Rayg Bridges .
Informed of the allegation. Bridges
said In San Francisco it was "the
silliest thing I ever heard." The
charge was made by Chief of Detec
tives John J. Keegan of Portland,
Ore., in testimony yesterday before
the house committee on un-American
activities.
"If this fellow Keegan or anyone
else had even the slightest evidence
of the things he accuses, they
wouldn't waste five minutes In ar
resting me," Bridges declared
Representative Thomas (R., N. J.)
of the house committee and Stephen
P. Chadwlck. national commander of
the American Legion, expressed dis
satisfaction over the failure of the
labor department to deport Bridges.
Deportation proceedings were in
stituted against the C. I. O. leader,
a native of Australia, some time ago,
but have been held in abeyance
pending supreme court action on
another case which Secretary Perkins
has contended was parallel.
To Ask impeachment
Thomas assorted unless Miss Per
kins a? ted quickly in the Bridges case
after the supreme court's decision,
he would Institute Impeachment pro
ceedings against her. Chairman Dies
(D.. Texas) of the committee also
sucsted recently Miss Perkins mi.?lU
be Impeached because of her han
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The Veterans of Foreign Wars sug
gested an 11-point legislative pro
gram to eliminate "the dnngor from
foreign 'Isms " in the United States.
Eugeno I. Van Antwerp, com
mander-in-chief of the organization,
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anxious for President Roosevelt and
congress to adopt policies which
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TOKYO, Dec. 8. (AP) Ten of the
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PORTLAND, Dec. 8. (AP) Two
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stick-up man, who obtained $10, was
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PENDLETON, Ore.. Dec. 8. (AP)
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