Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 May 1938 — Page 11

FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1938

IMPERSONATION CASE SENTENCE IS POSTPONED

Judge Awaits Probation Re- | port on Stamback, Convicted by Jury.

District Judge Robert C. Baltzell | today awaited a U. S. Probation Of-

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MOTHER TO AI HUNT FOR BODY

Admits Helping Son Bury Dismembered Portions Along Road in 1928.

SEATTLE, May 6 (U. P.).—May Eleanor Smith, 73, who confessed | she had assisted her son in leads authorities

may lead to her execution

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her sentence for grand larceny, she these they scattered along the road,

was brought here to lead police over the road along which, according to her confession, she and her son, Earl Decasto Mayer, carried parts of the body of Lieut. James Eugene Bassett of the Navy in September, 1928. Unless some part of Lieut. Bassett’s body was found there was little likelihood that Mrs. Smith and Mayer could be prosecuted, though authorities talked of establishing the essential corpus delicti by circumstantial evidence. Mayer still is in Walla Walla Penitentiary, where he is serving life as a habitual criminal. Mrs. Smith confessed dismembering Lieut

that,

after Bassett's body | she and her son carried the pieces | along a road out of Seattle, burying |

| she said. Mrs. Smith came into the jail here wearing smoked glasses. A few hours before she had confronted her son at Walla Walla and accused him of murdering four persons, including Lieut. Bassett. The area where Mrs. Smith said

parts of Lieut. Bassett's body were |

buried has been searched times without success.

(of his personal effects. several | sett disappeared en route to Manila | on a naval assignment

Lieut. Base

Mrs. Smith

The State Parole Board ordered | said her son killed Lieut. Bassett ~nd

Mrs. Smith released before her time |

posed as a clergyman to kill three

was up so that she could aid the | Montana residents in the early 1920s,

new search. Mrs. Smith and her | son were convicted of having stolen Lieut. Bassett's automobile and other

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lobbyist on charges of ‘ ing a Federal office: Stamback was convicted by a Federal Court vesterday. He has been held in Marion County Jail since September, when he was ari

rested by Federal officers. |

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jury

Says He Borrowed Money

U. 8S. Attorney Val Nolan said | “Stamback came to Indianapolis in| 1937, took residence in a hotel, and | borrowed money from the hotel] guests and manager. on the pretense that he was waiting for his Govern- | ment pay check to arrive.” Government witnesses that they money to fendant because “he told us he worked for the U. S. Department] of Interior and his check was late.” Stamback said he became a pro-| fessional Washington lobbyist after he was discharged as ‘political sec- | retary to Rep. Pnliv Gray.”

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testified the de-

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Stamback denied he represented

as a Government employee Times Photo From sixteen candidates selected from the upper scholastic group Washington High School Junior Class, Misses Dollie Shell 339 N. Addison St., was elected by the student body as May for Mav 26 ceremonies. Miss Mabel Loehr Miss LaVon Whitmire are sponsors and attendants will be Miss Virginia Buchanan, Miss Thelma Farrington. Miss Margaret Maase, Miss Doris Pottinger,

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said he borrowed } until 1 - checks from home [aid Stamback a Dis-|

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charges of fraud in connection with | The sentence

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