Josiah Clark Bassett Jr. descends from #3B Thomas Bassett of Connecticut as follows:<\/p>\n
Thomas Bassett (b. 1598) and wife Joanna Beardsley
\nThomas Bassett and wife Sarah Baldwin
\nJosiah Bassett (b. 1690) and wife Alice Canfield
\nSamuel Bassett (b. 1723) and Susannah Morris
\nSamuel Bassett (b. 1756) and wife Jerusha Hotchkiss
\nDavid Bassett (b. 1777) and wife Sophia
\nPhilander Vincent Bassett (b. 1809) and wife Sarah Ann Clark
\nJosiah Clark Bassett (b. 1841) and wife Pernelia Eklund
\nJosiah Clark Bassett Jr. (b. 1878)<\/p>\n
Weekly Journal-Miner,\u00a0 Arizona, Wednesday Morning, December 30, 1914
\nBassett Bound Over: Goes To Jail
\n(From Thursday\u2019s Daily)<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Joe Bassett was bound over for trial to the superior court yesterday by Judge McLane and his bonds fixed at one thousand dollars, in default of which he is in the county jail.<\/p>\n
Bassett was accused of having killed a calf belonging to the Chino Valley Land and Cattle Company, and arrested at Hackberry as he was evidently leaving the country. The crime was alleged to have been committed about Nov. 4th<\/sup>, and Mrs. Bassett, the second wife of the accused, filed the complaint, after having left her husband.<\/p>\n Ed Stephens, cattle inspector, testified to finding the hide buried on the Bassett place in the Walnut creek country, and said that it bore the brand \u201cK.M.\u201d, which is that of the Chino Valley Land and Cattle company. 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. Mr. Stephens also testified that Bassett had admitted the killing to him since he was incarcerated in the county jail. His testimony was corroborated by that of Deputy Burgett and Under Sheriff Raible. County Attorney O\u2019Sulivan 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.<\/p>\n Bassett Acknowledges Crime.<\/p>\n Bassett was the only witness for the defense, and he made what seemed to be a clean breast of the whole affair. He had subpoenaed E. J. Brown, of Ash Fork, to prove that Brown had given him permission to kill a beef belonging to the B.P. Company, but Mr. Brown was not sworn, the defense resting after Bassett 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 destitute 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 \u201cBuster\u201d (E.J.) Brown, whom he swore told him about a year previous that if he wanted to kill one 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, however, he found that it was not one of the \u201cB.P.\u201d 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 disappointed with the place he took her to after the marriage, and complained that she could not stay there. Soon after the killing of the calf she said, according to the evidence of Bassett, \u201cI will squeal on you and that is the way I will get a divorce.\u201d After this trouble with his wife, on Dec. 4th<\/sup> he brought her to town and returned home, packed up many of his belongs 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 to go to Nevada if he suspected arrest. \u201cI was in bad,\u201d he said, \u201cand but if not I 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.\u201d He said he wanted to tell the whole truth and let the matter rest on a square basis. Asked if he was drunk when he married his present wife, he replied that he was not, adding, \u201cbut I must have been crazy.\u201d 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 Illinois, and had filed on a homestead the place where he lived at the time of the trouble.<\/p>\n His evidence was a complete confession, tinctured with regrets and long explanations, and left nothing else for the judge to do but hold the case for further investigation by a higher court.<\/p>\n Bassett left his team and wagon at Hackberry, where he was arrested.<\/p>\n Weekly Journal Miner, Arizona, Wednesday Morning, February 3, 1915 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Joe Bassett, convicted of grand larceny, was given a sentence of two years in the penitentiary yesterday, which was suspended, with the understanding that he was to report regularly to the sheriff during the period named.<\/p>\n Bassett killed and consumed a calf belonging to the Big Chino Land & Cattle Company. He made a complete confession in which were many mitigating circumstances which gained for him the leniency extended. His wife, who has left him, filed the information was a parting shot, after a few weeks of wedded life with Bassett in his cabin home in the Chino valley. Bassett is a trapper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Josiah Clark Bassett Jr. descends from #3B Thomas Bassett of Connecticut as follows: Thomas Bassett (b. 1598) and wife Joanna Beardsley Thomas Bassett and wife Sarah Baldwin Josiah Bassett (b. 1690) and wife Alice Canfield Samuel Bassett (b. 1723) and … Continue reading
\nBassett Gets Liberty<\/p>\n