Amos L. Batts got into a bit of difficulty in the spring of 1950, catching a charge for second-degree burglary in Seattle, Washington. On June 5, he received a deferred sentence and, not long after, joined the crew of a naval transport ship that plied a Seattle-Yokohama route. He accidentally drowned in Alaska as the ship neared its return to Washington in September.

Washington State Corrections and Records, 1877-1970, Ancestry.com.