Category Archives: #courts

Raymond bombing

Posted on January 25, 2008 by lmharnisch

    The February 1938 issue of Vogue–delayed because of antisemitic words hidden in a cartoon. A big news day: Japanese soldiers brutalize Nanking, China, while Japanese authorities apologize and eventually issue an edict that malicious cables discrediting the Japanese … Continue reading →

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Jan. 25, 1908

Posted on January 25, 2008 by lmharnisch

Abbot Kinney is the target of 150 complaints about a tent city in Venice … Los Angeles County collects nearly a quarter-million dollars in taxes in one day, its highest record to date … Secondhand dealers — mostly Jews, The … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates

Posted on January 24, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 24, 1958 In 1924, Nathan F. Leopold Jr. was sentenced to life imprisonment for one of the most vicious, senseless crimes ever committed in this country. He and a fellow University of Chicago student, Richard Loeb, were responsible for … Continue reading →

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Jan. 24, 1958

Posted on January 24, 2008 by lmharnisch

Car dealer H.J. Caruso goes to jail … A witness in the L. Ewing Scott case attacks a TV cameraman … Imperial Emperor Bill Hendrix orders the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan to disband … And The Times leads … Continue reading →

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Raymond bombing

Posted on January 24, 2008 by lmharnisch

You’re reading this correctly: Police Chief Davis insists the LAPD had nothing to do with the Harry Raymond bombing, and Capt. Earle Kynette, who is out on bail on charges of wiretapping Raymond’s home, says he’ll have the culprits in … Continue reading →

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Raymond bombing

Posted on January 23, 2008 by lmharnisch

Mayor Frank Shaw says he has the "utmost confidence" in the LAPD’s investigation of the Harry Raymond bombing. He also says there is no evidence of police involvement in the blast … Allegations of police corruption in Arcadia … The … Continue reading →

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Wyatt Earp

Posted on January 23, 2008 by lmharnisch

  Drawing by the Los Angeles Times The famed Tombstone lawman and his wife testify for the defense in the Estelle Corwell murder trial–this discovery was an unexpected joy, I must say …  Potential problems in defending California’s coast against … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates

Posted on January 22, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 22, 1958 Please read this story to the finish. It’s a shocker. But it’s worth the few minutes it’ll take you to read it. Because, as they say, there, but for the grace of God– The subject of the … Continue reading →

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Raymond bombing

Posted on January 22, 2008 by lmharnisch

    Isn’t Google Earth amazing? According to this satellite photo, the distance from the LAPD surveillance post at 2711 E. 7th St. post to Harry Raymond’s house at 955 Orme was 440 feet. Email me

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Raymond bombing

Posted on January 22, 2008 by lmharnisch

  Dist. Atty. Buron Fitts calls for a grand jury investigation … An update in the Paul Wright murder trial (by the way, the house in Glendale where the killings occurred was still standing as of a few years ago). … Continue reading →

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Jan. 22, 1908

Posted on January 21, 2008 by lmharnisch

A juicy murder trial draws curious throngs … Food poisoning from a bad sausage kills a Civil War hero and his wife … And note the ad for the Salt Lake Route, which was acquired by Union Pacific in 1921… … Continue reading →

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Raymond bombing

Posted on January 21, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 21, 1938Los Angeles The state attorney general’s office steps into the bombing investigation and everyone in our cast of characters gets ready for the drama. (I love the front page photo of Police Capt. Earle Kynette). On the jump, … Continue reading →

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Actor stabbed

Posted on January 20, 2008 by lmharnisch

  Jan. 19-21, 1958 Los Angeles Her name was Velda and she had apparently been a model in New York. That’s where she met Burt Lancaster, at right with nurse Genevieve Grigoli. It’s not clear how well she knew the … Continue reading →

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Jan. 19, 1908

Posted on January 19, 2008 by lmharnisch

A prop man gets in trouble for stealing greenery from Elysian Park … A devout Methodist and street corner evangelist severs his connections to the church, saying it has nothing to do with his relationship with a troubled woman … … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on January 16, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 16, 1958 Fellow beer drinkers, we’ve got a crisis bubbling over right in front of us. Before we call in the United Nations, let’s give it a brief rundown. Plans have been going ahead, more or less quietly, for … Continue reading →

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Raymond bombing

Posted on January 16, 2008 by lmharnisch

    Photograph by Larry Harnisch / Los Angeles Times The site of the Harry Raymond bombing, 955 Orme St., half a block south of Whittier Boulevard, Jan. 16, 2008.   Email me

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Jan. 16, 1908

Posted on January 16, 2008 by lmharnisch

A courtroom crowded with people hoping to hear juicy details in a murder trial… Animal cruelty in the Antelope Valley … Complaints about the mails … A pioneer returns to find Los Angeles greatly changed in his absence … And … Continue reading →

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Glendale vandalism

Posted on January 15, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 15, 1958Los Angeles This is the incident Paul Coates wrote about in a recent column.  

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on January 14, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 14, 1958 Judges try not to smile, no matter how ridiculous the charade unfolding before them becomes. Sometimes they hold back only with great difficulty. A woman seeking a divorce in Judge Burnett Wolfson’s court was asked on what … Continue reading →

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Jan. 14, 1908

Posted on January 14, 2008 by lmharnisch

A man convicted of killing a police officer killer tries to sell his body for a little cash … and his partner goes on trial…  A man can’t get picked up by the streetcar because he looks like a robber… … Continue reading →

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