Category Archives: #courts

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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Killing revisited

Posted on January 13, 2008 by lmharnisch

  Sylvan C. Diamond writes of the Felicitas Nicholson case: I covered the Nicholson trial as a reporter for the all news radio station in Riverside, KACE. (No longer there). I was allowed by presiding Superior Court Judge John Gabbert … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates

Posted on January 13, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 13, 1958 Juvenile terror has been a fact in this town for a long time. It’s nothing new. But there is something new about the latest series of outbreaks which hit the headlines over the last few days. Take … Continue reading →

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Whites only

Posted on January 12, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 12, 1958

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Jan. 9, 1908

Posted on January 9, 2008 by lmharnisch

Daniel Meskil is convicted of fatally shooting Officer Patrick Lyons, the second LAPD officer ever killed in the line of duty. Notice that The Times used an illustration for breaking news instead of a photograph… Searching for moonstones on Redondo … Continue reading →

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Man kills son

Posted on January 7, 2008 by lmharnisch

  Jan. 7, 1958 Los Angeles "Dear mother," the note from 9-year-old Jimmy began. They weren’t his words, of course. They were dictated by his father, David James Darr, a 34-year-old machinist who was apparently holding a .45 to his … Continue reading →

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Fugitive caught

Posted on January 6, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 6, 1958 Los Angeles Sheriff’s deputies finally caught up with escaped mental patient Mary H. Andrews (alias Mary Mitchell Andrews), who vanished in November after kidnapping her mother and a friend. Since then, The Times said, Mary had been … Continue reading →

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Editor kills self

Posted on January 4, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 4, 1958New York   Photographs by Dan McCormack / Los Angeles Times Howard Rushmore on Aug. 12, 1957, during the Confidential magazine trial.   I already touched on Howard Rushmore’s suicide when writing in May about another tragic figure … Continue reading →

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Jan. 4, 1958

Posted on January 3, 2008 by lmharnisch
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