Category Archives: #courts

January 10, 1909: Addicted to Gambling

Posted on April 12, 2009 by lmharnisch

January 10, 1909: If you strip away the moralistic tone used by the anonymous Times reporter, the problems of the young men caught up in gambling (in this case horse racing) a century ago are quite modern. Wrecked on the … Continue reading →

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State Tax Plan; Dodger Breaks Ankle, April 9, 1969

Posted on April 9, 2009 by lmharnisch

  Tommy Davis was a star with the Dodgers, a two-time National League batting champion. Then everything changed with one slide. Davis was headed toward second in a 1965 game at Dodger Stadium, a routine play that forever slowed his career. … Continue reading →

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CBS Cancels Hit Comedy Show Over Censorship; Sweet Lou Returns, April 5, 1969

Posted on April 5, 2009 by lmharnisch

A Requiem by Benny Carter is performed at a memorial for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Restaurants lost thousands of dollars to hippies who ate meals but left without paying. The ACLU says Palm Spring police violated  the Constitution … Continue reading →

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Jordan’s King Hussein Visits L.A.; Rams to Play Night Game, April 4, 1959

Posted on April 4, 2009 by lmharnisch

The Times' art department retouched Neil Clemans' photo of Marlon Brando giving the finger to photographers. Let's see if we can get a copy of the original. At left, King Hussein of Jordan waves to photographers in Palmdale after flying … Continue reading →

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Mickey Cohen at Center of Underworld Probe; Comedy of Errors at Wrigley Field, April 2, 1949

Posted on April 2, 2009 by lmharnisch

The San Bernardino County Grand Jury finds widespread corruption in the Sheriff's Department. What do we find in the 1949 paper but Mickey Cohen in the middle of the Alfred Pearson scandal. To vastly simply the story, Pearson picked up … Continue reading →

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‘Ma’ Duncan

Posted on March 30, 2009 by lmharnisch

Photograph by John Malmin / Los Angeles Times Defendants Augustine Baldonado, left, and Luis Moya stand during the arraignment of Elizabeth Ann Duncan, with attorney S. Ward Sullivan, in Ventura County. By Catriona Lavery Elizabeth Ann Duncan hired two men … Continue reading →

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Actress Near Death After Beating; Gehrig in Decline, March 29, 1939

Posted on March 29, 2009 by lmharnisch

Dewitt Clinton Cook, who admitted attacking actress Delia Bogard, was executed Jan. 31, 1941, in the fatal beating of Anya Sosoyeva.  Bogard died in 1995 in Los Angeles at the age of 74. Ouch! A Duesenberg Model J sedan for … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock — March 26, 1959

Posted on March 26, 2009 by lmharnisch

Progressive Pains That noise you hear down Santa Monica way is not another hunk of palisades sliding toward the ocean, it’s the indignant uproar over progress, with our without quotes. With the opening of Pacific Ocean Park  last year, the … Continue reading →

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Mickey Cohen in Senate Racket Probe; Drysdale Throws Shutout, March 25, 1959

Posted on March 25, 2009 by lmharnisch

At first, I thought this would be great for my lead art … … next, I thought this would be even better… … but "Nancy" wins. Ernie Bushmiller’s comic is usually timeless, but here’s a rare topical reference to the … Continue reading →

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Mayor’s Aide Guilty of Selling Jobs, March 24, 1939

Posted on March 24, 2009 by lmharnisch

A line of Nazi tanks crosses into Czechoslovakia.  Head of Federal Reserve calls for a balanced budget. Joseph Shaw, brother former Mayor Frank Shaw, is convicted on 63 counts of selling jobs and promotions in the Los Angeles police and … Continue reading →

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Jury Weighs Cleaver Killing; Renting the Coliseum, March 19, 1949

Posted on March 19, 2009 by lmharnisch

Walter Miller slashes his wrists, stabs himself and smashes his head into the backyard incinerator — and lives. The Times asks Andre Kostelanetz: Should Dmitri Shostakovich be allowed to visit the U.S.? Stravinsky says "No!" Above, the sordid murder case … Continue reading →

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Soliah Indicted, February 27, 1976

Posted on March 17, 2009 by lmharnisch

Now this is interesting … and not at all what I expected. According to our 1976 story on the indictment of Kathleen Soliah (now Sara Jane Olson), above, an 18-inch pipe bomb was found in the parking lot of a … Continue reading →

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Body of Boxing Manager Found on Ventura Freeway, March 1977

Posted on March 16, 2009 by lmharnisch

Photograph by the Los Angeles Times Howard Steindler, about 1970. Howard Steindler’s killing follows the classic arc of a story about an unsolved murder. First, an interesting victim dies violently. There are a few tantalizing clues, almost enough to break … Continue reading →

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Anna Nicole Smith — 2007

Posted on March 15, 2009 by lmharnisch

Note: The Daily Mirror revisits Times archival stories about today’s news makers. This is a column originally published in 2007 on the death of Anna Nicole Smith. Breathtaking coverage, but lamentable By Paul BrownfieldFebruary 10, 2007 The centerfold, the gold … Continue reading →

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James Earl Ray Gets 99 Years for Killing King; Angels Want Ex-Dodger, March 11, 1969

Posted on March 11, 2009 by lmharnisch

Black militants shut down two schools in protests over police brutality … and gold is selling for $48.41 an ounce or $270.94 USD 2007. "It was the first time I ever killed a man in hand-to-hand combat," Medal of Honor … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock — March 3, 1959

Posted on March 3, 2009 by lmharnisch

Death of a Fighter Rene Belbenoit, a gallant man, goes to his grave today at Pierce Bros. Hollywood cemetery. Rene, 59, was found dead, sitting in a chair, in the little desert store he had operated the last seven years … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates — Confidential File, March 3, 1959

Posted on March 3, 2009 by lmharnisch

Photographs by the Los Angeles Times Frank Heller and Linda Mintz in a photograph published Nov. 11, 1958, in The Times.  Slave Camp to Murder Trial Nazi Victim Still Hopes For Linda Mintz, tomorrow the horror may end. The tiny, … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates — Confidential File, February 21, 1959

Posted on February 21, 2009 by lmharnisch

Killer Thinks He Deserves to Die By Paul CoatesStaff Columnist Robert Leonard Mason wants to die. Without a flicker of emotion, the 40-year-old confessed murderer told me today: "I think I should go to the gas chamber. "Through the State … Continue reading →

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Arabs on Alert, Baseball Strike? February 20, 1969

Posted on February 20, 2009 by lmharnisch

Nancy Sinatra … in WAX! To simulate prejudice, brunet students eat at a table designed "No Blondes." At left, Arab countries prepare for retaliation for a terrorist attack on an El Al airliner at Zurich. Also… Take the time to … Continue reading →

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Airliner Vanishes En Route to L.A., Coin Flip for Alcindor, February 19, 1969

Posted on February 19, 2009 by lmharnisch

The Mineral County Airlines DC-3 was found in August on the northeast face of Mt. Whitney. Lew Alcindor and the New York Nets –what might have been. Back when two basketball leagues were battling over the best players, the Nets … Continue reading →

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