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Chester Arthur Mason

Case from Beatrice, NE dated Nov 12, 1932

Victim Details

Chester Arthur Mason

Male

White / Caucasian

Beatrice

NE

1932-11-12

28

Chester

Arthur Mason

07/18/2026

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Chester Arthur Mason, a 28-year-old male, White/Caucasian, was a United States Department of Justice Bureau of Prohibition special agent working an undercover liquor case near Beatrice, Nebraska, on November 12, 1932. With a confidential informant, he arranged a buy from a known bootlegger, Ted Wells, on a rural road about three miles south and one mile east of town. When Mason moved in to make the arrest after the transaction, a struggle broke out; Wells pulled a handgun, fatally shot Mason, an ...
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