MURDERS ALLEGED
MOTHER’S SENSATIONAL DECLARATION AFTER BEING TEN YEARS IN GAOL WASHINGTON, May 5. A sensation has been caused by an elderly woman’s murder story. Mrs Mary Eleanor Smith, aged 73, at present in prison, broke down after 10 years and declared that her son, Decasto Earl Mayer, aged 42, who is also in prison, killed a young naval lieutenant, James Basset, in 1928, and also killed two other men and one woman. All disappeared after they had been seen with Mayer.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1938, Page 7
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82MURDERS ALLEGED Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1938, Page 7
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