In 1878 an unusual murder took place in Bridgeport which captured the attention of the public. There were two perpetrators in the murder: Frank Bassett and his common law wife Lorena Alexander. Bassett and Alexander lived in a tenement in Barnum’s old carriage factory in ...
By Jaime Pettit The older man looked unassuming, dressed in a plaid flannel shirt and a black-and-gray tweed sport jacket as he stood at the phone booth on the corner of Main and Jewett Ave. Passing Bridgeport residents paid him no mind as they made their ...
