FOUR PEOPLE KILLED
MOTHER ACCUSES 80N SENSATION IN AMERICA United Press Assn.—Elec Tel. copyright WASHINGTON, May 5 A sensation has been created by an elderly woman's story of murders. The woman in question, Mrs Mary Eleanor Smith, aged 73, who has been* in prison 10 years, broke down and declared that her son, Decasto Earl Mayer, aged 42, also in prison, killed a young naval officer, Lieutenant James Bassett, in 1928. Mrs Smith also said that her son killed two other men and one woman, all of whom disappeared after being seen with Mayer.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20492, 7 May 1938, Page 7
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94FOUR PEOPLE KILLED Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20492, 7 May 1938, Page 7
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