Weekly journal-miner., 1914-12-30
BASSETT BOUND OVER;
 GOES TO JAIL
(From Thursdays Daily)

Joe bdSSett was pound over TOT trial to the superior court yesterday by Judge McLane and his bonds fix ed at one thousand dollars, in de- fault of which he is in the county jail.
 Bassett was accused of having kill ed calf belonging to the Chino Val ley Land and Cattle Company. and arrested at Blackberry as he was evi- dently leaving the country. The crime was alleged to have been com mitted about Nov. 4th. and Mrs. Bassett. the second wife of the ac- cused, filed the complaint, after hay ing left her husband.
 Ed. Stephens. cattle inspector. testi- fed to finding the hide buried on the Bassett place in the Walnut creek country, and said that it bore the brand K. M.." which is that of the Chino Valley Land and Cattle com pany. Himself and Deputy Sheriff Burgett went to that place with Mrs. Bassett after the complaint was filed and found the pelt buried under about two feet Of soil. Mir. Stephens also testified that Bassett had admitted the killing to him since he was in carcerated in the county jail. His testimony was corroborated by that of Deputy Burgett and Under Sheriff Raible. County Attorney O'Sullivan also placed J. D. Brown, of Ash Fork, manager of the Chino Valley Land and Cattle Company, on the stand to prove the brand was that of his company, after which the State rested.
 Bassett Acknowledges Crime.
 Bassett was the only witness for the defense, and he made what seem ed to be a clean breast of the whole affair. He had subpoenaed E. ]. Brown, of Ash Fork, to prove that Brown had given him permission to kill a beef belonging 10 the B. P. Company, but Mir. Brown was not sworn, the defense resting after Bas- sett had given his testimony. The story he told was to the effect that he killed the calf at a time when he was out of meat and practically des- titute of food. Himself and wife whom he had married a few weeks previous to the killing were at home at the time, and she held the lantern while he skinned the animal and afterward helped eat the meat When he killed the animal he said he thought it belonged to Buster" (E. JD Brown, whom he swore told him about a year previous that if he want ed to kill one beef from his herd any time to do so and hang the hide on his fence and he would get it. After he had shot the calf, how ever. he found that it was not one Of the "B. P." cattle, and knew he was in bad, so buried the hide and said nothing about it. He said his wife told him it was wrong. His wife, according to his story, was dis appointed with the place he took her to after the marriage, and com plained that she could not stay there. Soon after the killing of the call she said. according to the evidence of Bassett. "I will squeal on you and that is the way I will get a divorce" After this trouble with his wife, on Dec. 4th he brought her to town and returned home, packed up many of his belongings and started for Kingman, where he said he expected to stop and trap during the winter provided he did not hear Of his wife making him trouble. admitting that he expected 10 go to Nevada if he suspected arrest. "I was in bad,' he said, and expect ed to leave the country if necessary, but if not l expected to spend the winter trapping in the Kirkland country and return here in the spring and pay up some of the debts of my brother" He said he wanted to tell the whole truth and let the matter rest on square basis. Asked if he was drunk when he married his pres ent wife, he replied that he was not, adding. but l must have been crazy" He said his first wife was dead: that his present wife had three or four children in California whom she had given away. He also said that he had been following the business of trapping wild animals for a living most of the time for the past fifteen years since he came west from Illi- | nois, and had filed on a homestead the place where he lived at the time of the trouble
 His evidence was a complete con fession, tinctured with regrets and .