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Baker A. Bass

Male 1853 - 1895  (41 years)


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  • Name Baker A. Bass 
    Born 3 Dec 1853  Halifax County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 30 Aug 1895  Thomasville, Thomas County, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 

    • Age-Herald, Saturday, August 31, 1895
      Murder or Suicide?
      An Atlanta Merchant Found Wounded Under Mysterious Circumstances

      Atlanta, Aug. 30 ? B.A. Bass, a Peters street commission merchant, was shot at 4:30 o?clock this morning in the rear of the Grand theater. There is some doubt whether it was suicide or murder, but the detectives working on the case think it was suicide. The body was found in a ditch in an alley, which runs back from the Aragon hotel.
      Bass left his home at 4:13 o?clock to go to his store. It is supposed that he started through the alley because it was a nearer route. The policemen, who were near, heard the pistol shot, but did not see any one run away. Bass told his son and some friends yesterday that his life had been threatened. He was to have been tried himself tomorrow for receiving stolen goods. There are two theories ? one that he shot himself to escape the trial, and another is that he was shot by some one implicated in the stealing. Bass died this afternoon. He was married and has four children. He came from Thomasville, Ga.


      St. Louis Republic, Missouri, Saturday, September 21, 1895
      Baker A. Bass Murder
      An Arrest and Sensational Developments at Atlanta, Ga.
      Special to The Republic

      Atlanta, Ga. Sept. 20 ? The sensational murder of Baker A. Bass, a prominent commission man, who was killed just three weeks ago, loomed up again in the arrest of H.T. Jenkins, a man well-known about town as a tobacco drummer. Jenkins is not charged directly with the crime, but the detectives claim that they have positive proof, in the shape of a confession, that he endeavored to hire witnesses to fix the crime upon Detective Green Conn. Jenkins, it seems, was a friend of Bass and was connected with him in business ventures. It is claimed that he owed Bass considerable money. A few days ago he came out in a sensational interview, alleging that the pistol found by Bass? side had been identified as belonging to Detective Conn. He corroborated his claim by the testimony of Mrs. Dampman, a woman with whom, it was alleged, both Bass and Conn were intimate. Yesterday detectives and newspaper men were concealed in a closet in the house of assignation where the woman and Jenkins met. She, it seems, had been scared by the charges of conspiracy which had been hinted by the detectives and had arranged the interview so that Jenkins could be induced to reveal his part in the conspiracy. He acknowledged that he had offered the woman $500 to identify the pistol as Conn?s. The theory goes further back and connects Jenkins with the original tragedy. He has been arrested and maintains stoutly


      1900 Federal Census of Brooklyn, Kings County, New York (4 Jun 1900)
      Wlla M. Bass 46 F Aug 1853 GA GA GA Head
      Baker 20 M Jul 1879 GA NC GA Son Grocery Clerk
      Frederick P. 18 M Apr 1882 GA NC GA Son Sailor merchant
      Mary R. 14 F Sep 1885 GA NC GA Daughter
      Mary McKinnon 68 F Oct 1831 IR IR IR Mother
      (Ella, 5 children, 3 living) (Mary, 1 child)
    Person ID I50843  1A William Bassett of Plymouth
    Last Modified 13 Feb 2022 

    Father Turner Bass,   b. 19 Jan 1807, Halifax County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Aug 1873, Halifax County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years) 
    Mother Rebecca Mabry,   b. 1812,   d. 1877  (Age 65 years) 
    Married 7 Sep 1829  Halifax County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F17886  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ellanora McKinnon,   b. 1853,   d. 1905  (Age 52 years) 
    Married 17 Nov 1874  Thomas County, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. John T. Bass,   b. 18 Jan 1877, Thomasville, Thomas County, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Oct 1897, Galveston, Galveston County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 20 years)
     2. Baker Bass,   b. Jul 1879, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location
    +3. Frederick Parker Bass,   b. 26 Apr 1882, Thomasville, Thomas County, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Jun 1947, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years)
     4. Mary R. Bass,   b. 1886
    Last Modified 13 Feb 2022 
    Family ID F19169  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart