Crime,
"Stuttering Jack."
CRIME.
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"STUTTERING JACK."
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Sept. 29.--May 12 John Rufus, alias "Stuttering Jack," was murdered in an unoccupied East Bridgeport carriage-factory by Frank E. Bassett, who placed the body in a barrel and drove to Dr. Sanford of Yale Medical School, New Haven, who refused to purchase it without a certificate from the proper authorities. He then drove to Derby, on the west bank of the river, to an unfrequented spot, and rolled the barrel down an embankment into the water. The woman with whom Bassett lived was conversant with the whole matter, and, becoming dissatisfied with his actions, let drop some remarks, which, being followed up by Chief Marsh, the whole story was brought out and the body recovered to-day. Bassett is now in jail.
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Source:
Unknown, "Crime, Stuttering Jack," Chicago Daily Tribune, Monday, 30 September, 1878, Page 3.
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