However, Burton did not account for documented instances showing Bassett to have been in the United States at the same time that Etta Place was known to have been in South America. Bassett was under arrest for cattle rustling in Utah while Place, who had departed for South America with Longabaugh in August, 1902, was there with Cassidy and Longabaugh until returning to the United States (via New York City) in the summer of 1904. In 1903 alone Bassett was married, incarcerated, tried, and released over a span of several months. Further, Bassett never claimed to have been Etta Place, even in her memoirs.
