Charles Bascomb

Charles Bascomb
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Charles Bascomb was a heavy-set, fiftyish man. He was the Hawthorne police chief who had hired Cody Archer as a part-time officer when Cody started at Southern Michigan University.^SLH33

Because the college didn't have its own security force, Chief Bascomb asked Cody Archer to spend some time on campus in uniform to get known as an officer, and to carry his badge, ID a radio and be armed when not in uniform. He temporarily sold Cody a small hideout pistol.^SLH14

Chief Bascomb was on the golf course when he heard the radio call about a shooting at the college and immediately went ot the college.^SLH28 When he got to the scene he had to over-ride Sargeant John Claxton to lead officers into the building.^SLH28 He told Claxton to take a week off before he made a decision what to do with him.^SLH34

He suggested a sergeant who’s getting set to retire, and he thinks that this man has the mindset of a good security man when Mark Thompson admitted the need of a security force at SMU.^SLH39