Category Archives: #courts

Man Kidnaps Daughter’s Playmate

Posted on December 3, 2009 by lmharnisch

  “The Days of Real Sport” by Clare Briggs   Dec. 3, 1919: J.C. [or J.T.] Christian is accused of running off to Calexico with a 13-year-old girl who was his daughter's playmate. The Times not only names a minor … Continue reading →

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Life’s Seamy Side

Posted on December 3, 2009 by lmharnisch

     Dec. 3, 1909: Authorities are trying to establish what happened to Hazel Robertson Dillon between the time she escaped from St. Mary's Convent by stealing a dress and slipping it over her gym clothes and when she was … Continue reading →

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Singer Pleads Not Guilty to Soliciting

Posted on December 2, 2009 by lmharnisch

Akron has remote-control dachshunds — “a zany plaything.” Johnnie Ray says he just invited a friendly undercover officer up to his room for a nightcap. Nothing indecent about that. Mr. Flynn, would you like gold plating on that nude statue … Continue reading →

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Homeowner Captures Burglar After Struggle

Posted on December 2, 2009 by lmharnisch

  Dec. 2, 1909: William Mulholland says the aqueduct from Owens Valley will be done a year ahead of schedule.   The East Adams Boulevard neighborhood via Google maps street view. Dec. 2, 1909: Romeo E. Ellithorp [or Ellithorpe]  and … Continue reading →

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LAPD Disputes FBI Crime Statistics

Posted on December 1, 2009 by lmharnisch

  Dec. 1, 1959: You may recall that there was mutual animosity between FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and Police Chief William H. Parker. One reason was that Parker thought the bureau’s national crime statistics were inaccurate and distorted Los … Continue reading →

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Drug Addicts Blamed for Crime Wave

Posted on November 30, 2009 by lmharnisch

"Ninety-nine percent of the present series of holdups, burglaries, armed robberies and other deeds of violence being committed nightly in this city and sometimes referred too as the 'crime wave' are the work of drug fiends seeking to get narcotics … Continue reading →

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Digging for Solomon’s Treasure

Posted on November 28, 2009 by lmharnisch

  Speculators are excavating at the Pool of Siloam in hopes of finding King Solomon’s treasure.   Nov. 14, 1909: Flames roar through an Illinois coal mine, trapping hundreds underground.   Nov. 28, 1909: Mine inspector Theodore Fellows is being taken … Continue reading →

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Court Fight Over Cook’s Biscuits

Posted on November 27, 2009 by lmharnisch

   Charges are dropped against men accused of violating the law on public speaking in parks.   Nov. 27, 1909: Lucene Farr, an African American cook, tries to recover $40 after quitting her job at the boarding house of Alice … Continue reading →

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Times Opposes Picture Brides

Posted on November 26, 2009 by lmharnisch

  Edmund Waller “Ted” Gale on a Thanksgiving theme – a union turkey. Nov. 26, 1919: The Times editorializes against picture brides, charging that they are just a maneuver around a California law that prevents Japanese immigrants from owning land.

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November 25, 1959: Paul V. Coates – Confidential File

Posted on November 25, 2009 by lmharnisch

Vice President Richard Nixon will be grand marshal of the Rose Parade! There Must Be Some Kind Answer to This (News item) Mrs. Carol Carpenter, 19, was arraigned in Los Angeles Municipal Court yesterday on felony child-desertion charges . . … Continue reading →

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An Expensive Thanksgiving Turkey

Posted on November 24, 2009 by lmharnisch

  Adjusted for inflation, these turkeys cost $5.92 a pound, USD 2008. Nov. 24, 1909: Pompey Smith,  identified as an African American, refuses to leave jail when his term is up because he wants to be exonerated. A judge tells … Continue reading →

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Police Unable to Stop Rising Tide of Auto Thefts

Posted on November 23, 2009 by lmharnisch

  As the country went dry, companies offered a way for people to brew their own alcohol.  Remember, beer is a health drink!      Nov. 23, 1919: “Motor car thefts are increasing and will continue to increase until some … Continue reading →

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Seniors Make Foolish Marriages, Judge Says

Posted on November 22, 2009 by lmharnisch

“A Pathetic Scene on the Nineteenth,” by Clare Briggs Nov. 22, 1919: A judge trying a divorce case between a 55-year-old woman and her 67-year-old husband says: "I wish you would keep your old folks down in Long Beach from … Continue reading →

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China Offers Great Market for U.S., Diplomat Says

Posted on November 22, 2009 by lmharnisch

Florence Newmark marries Sylvain Kauffman at 903 Beacon Ave. Nov. 22, 1909: Former Judge J.C. McNally, the U.S. consul to Nanjing, "expressed optimistic views of the commercial future of China and said that the country would be a network of … Continue reading →

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November 21, 1919: Wife Divorces ‘Girlish’ Army Officer

Posted on November 21, 2009 by lmharnisch

November 21, 1919: Lucille Howell seeks a divorce from her husband, an Army captain who likes to wear a girdle.

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Man Denies Daughter in Divorce Suit

Posted on November 20, 2009 by lmharnisch

“Wonder What a Decoy Thinks About” by Clare Briggs Nov. 20, 1919: A judge refuses to declare that a young girl is Eurasian simply because a man charges in a divorce suit that the father was a Japanese cook employed … Continue reading →

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Teacher Hospitalized After Undressing in Class

Posted on November 20, 2009 by lmharnisch

  Nov. 20, 1909: An unidentified woman, deranged over the death of her brother, is taken to a hospital after the school nurse finds her undressing in front of her class.

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November 19, 1959: Paul V. Coates – Confidential File

Posted on November 19, 2009 by lmharnisch

Saga of a Guy Who Flipped From Poky “I walk alone,” the voice on the phone told me, more as an apology than as a boast.  “With me, it’s habit.  I guess I never learned any other way.” The voice … Continue reading →

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Beauty Queen Seeks Divorce From Dockworker

Posted on November 18, 2009 by lmharnisch

  Nov. 18, 1959: Shirlee Garner Witty seeks a divorce, saying that her husband was always making snide remarks. Witty competed for the title of Miss Universe in 1956 even though she was a wife and mother, because at that … Continue reading →

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Three Sought in Robbery, Killing

Posted on November 18, 2009 by lmharnisch

  Dance tonight at the Roma, 616 S. Hill St.      Nov. 18, 1919: The housekeeper of a downtown rooming house is sought in the robbery and murder of the proprietor, W. Frank Sheets, and police are also looking … Continue reading →

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