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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)
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