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-dxfiuJE& [ ■ i £&>, (fimsi3£O&£BOS :*g Vol. 3. MURDER MOST FOUL. HOW B. A. BASSWASDONE TO DEATR The Mystery Carefully Analyzed and Laid Bare. THE SUICIDE THEORY UNTENABLE. He Knew He Was a Marked Man and Loaded Himself With Insurance Policies—He Was Undoubtedly Assassinated By Someone Who Feared He Might Tell in Court. That the strange and terrible taking off of Baker A. Bass on the morning of Friday before last still remains a profound and apparently inexplicable mystery is largely attributable to the fact that nobody has applied a careful analysis to the known circumstances of this remarkable tragedy. That done, the case ceases to be a mystery at all, and so plain and evident are the clues that lie between the lines that it is difficult to understand how they have been so persistently overlooked. To begin with, let us disentangle the facts from the great mass of irrelevant matter that has obscured the case in the papers, and state them plainly. At about 4:15 on the morning of Friday, the 30th of August, Baker A. Bass, a commission merchant with a shady record, left his home on the corner of Courtland and Ellis streets to open up his store. At 4:30, or thereabouts, a shot was heard and Bass was found dying on the pavement on Ivy street near the entrance to the alley that runs through to Peachtree at the side of the Grand Opera House. He had a bullet wound behind his right ear, and his shirt collar bore marks of having been jerked violently outward from the rear. Both button holes of the collar were torn out and the back showed the prints of fingers’ Clutched in his right hand was a cheap 38 calibre revolver with three empty and two loaded chambers. His hat was lying near by, but there were no evidences of a struggle other than those stat' d. Bass never spoke, and died about noon. These, briefly enumerated, are all the known circumstances of the death. In the wide discussion that has since followed public opinion has divided on two theories —that of suicide and that of murder. The suicide theorists (among whom are the entire detective department) point to the Established 1892. Entered at the Post Office at Atlanta, Ga„ for Second-Class Mail Rates. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1895. ■ fl J ATLANTA’S GREATEST MURDER MYSTERY. Scene of the assassination of Baker A. Bass on Ivy street opposite the Grand Opera House alley. Price Five Cents. No. 84.