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| February 8, 1927
Los Angeles
The fourth is a series of bold daylight robberies of outlying classrooms has been reported at the Lillian School, near Holmes and Slauson Avenues. As a room full... | |
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| February 6, 1927 Over the weekend, the District Attorney's crackerjack Prohibition task force proved beyond the shadow of a doubt their devotion to the cause. Then again, after... | |
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| Gentle reader,1947project, a Los Angeles based time travel blog dedicated to unearthing forgotten crime stories and peculiar happenings from the city's past, is seeking extraordinary... | |
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| February 5, 1927
Venice
The twisted tale of Avalona Carnevale began last December 8, when the 30-year-old housewife from Venice made a phone call to her jeweler husband, Vincent. She couldn't... | |
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| February 4, 1927
Los Angeles
A police dragnet is closing in on the killers of Luther H. Green. A member of the Los Angeles Stock Exchange, Green was slain outside of his home at... | |
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| February 3, 1927
Seemingly Everywhere
It was another olla podrida fulla banditry in Los Angeles, which bubbled over and burned something fierce at El Molino and Ninth when a gent approached... | |
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| January 2, 1927
Los Angeles
The good people of Los Angeles were reminded today of a quieter, simpler time—a time known as "1921". A magical time of Teapot Domes, and... | |
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| February 1, 1927
Whittier
Family annihilator George Hassell was convicted of killing his wife and her eight children by his late brother, and has an appointment with the Texas executioner... | |
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| January 30, 1927Los Angeles, CA Today was a good day to be a bad guy in Los Angeles, and a profitable one, too. Calls to police flooded in from the terrorized, the carjacked,... | |
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| January 29, 1927
Gardena
The Artful Dodger would have been nothing without his teacher, Fagin, but the Dare-Devil Club of Gardena didn't need anybody to train them in the techniques of...[[... | |
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