Note: This is an encore post from 2006.
November 22, 1907
Los Angeles
Weeping and heavily bandaged from where her drunk, enraged husband had shot her in the head, Ellen Larkin, 38, rose from her hospital bed, staggered to a nearby room and threw herself into the arms of her injured spouse. She covered him with kisses, vowing that she still loved him, and promised that he could come home as soon as he recovered from shooting himself and being nearly beaten to death with a baseball bat by their oldest son.
According to The Times, Jefferson B. Larkin, 45, a sometime teamster, horse player and “remittance man,” had returned to Los Angeles after spending four months in San Francisco while John, 16, the oldest of the Larkins’ four children, supported the family. As Larkin got thoroughly drunk, someone told him that his wife had been unfaithful, so he went to a pawnshop and bought a cheap revolver.
Two years ago, Bob Joseph bought a two-cylinder French Panhard, which has positively no area in front for a license plate. He has been driving it with only the rear plate.
“Mr. Paul Coates, dear friend:
The crash of a Marine plane near El Toro derails the Santa Fe’s San Diegan, but no serious injuries are reported.
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