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Chester Arthur Mason

Death by Force
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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 ...Read More
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    Victim Details

    Chester Arthur Mason

    Male

    White / Caucasian

    Beatrice

    NE

    1932-11-12

    28

    Chester

    Arthur Mason

    11/21/2025

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