animal cruelty
A Bad Way With Horses
Submitted by larry on Sun, 2006-11-12 08:33.
Nov.12, 1907
Los Angeles
Half a block from his home at 1131 Westlake, John P. Shumway Jr. was badly injured when the carriage he was driving collided with the 11th Street trolley. Shumway was thrown about 20 feet, striking the pavement head-first, and the horse ran for the stable, pulling what was left of the smashed carriage, witnesses said.
Shumway was carried to his home, where his father, Dr. John P. Shumway, treated him for a concussion, bruises and cuts. A year later, the family filed a personal injury suit against the Los Angeles Railway, seeking $10,355 ($204,938.83), although The Times failed to report the outcome of the trial.
Whether Shumway was a troublesome sort before is unclear, but his problems continued. In 1909, he was arrested for passing a forged check for $25 at the Pioneer bar on North Main Street. He claimed that he was given the check for work he had performed and was freed when he promised to repay the money.
A few months later, he was fined $60 for cruelty to a horse. Witnesses said Shumway overloaded a three-horse truck in South Pasadena and
Too Many Laws
Submitted by larry on Fri, 2006-07-28 08:17.
July 28, 1907
Los Angeles
City officials, hampered by a bramble bush of old and unenforced laws, have appointed deputy prosecutor Eddie to prune back outdated and unnecessary regulations from the early days of Los Angeles.
Among the old regulations are bans on
Who Poisoned Baby?
Submitted by larry on Sun, 2006-06-18 08:12.
June 18, 1907
Los Angeles
The victim: A collie named Baby
The plaintiff: Hazel G. (or Ella M.) Schurger, 1156 S. Flower.
The suspect: J.J. Brady of the Immigration Bureau, a next-door neighbor.
Baby
A Horse Avenged
Submitted by larry on Tue, 2006-06-06 08:02.
June 6, 1907
San Bernardino
The miners of the Silver Lake camp out in San Bernardino didn
Mullen in Bad Plight
Submitted by larry on Thu, 2006-05-18 09:17.
May 18, 1907
Los Angeles
William Mullen, a black strikebreaker for the Pioneer Truck Company, was delivering a shipment of lumber when he realized that he had lost some of his load and retraced his route to look for it.
At the Southern Pacific railroad crossing at Alameda and 2nd streets, Mullen noticed some lumber leaning against a shack belonging to a railroad flagman named Caulfield, who was presumably white. Mullen asked Caulfield if there was more of his lumber inside the shack and Caulfield said no.
Mullen challenged Caulfield, knocked him to the ground and began kicking him when Patrick Connelly, a union teamster for the Water Department and also presumably white, intervened, although it
To the Moon, Alice!
Submitted by larry on Wed, 2006-05-17 07:16.May 17, 1907
Los Angeles
The Le Canns continued their spat in court after Mrs. Le Cann showed Judge Chambers a piece of skin she said was torn from her lip when her husband, Fred (also listed as Ferdinand), shoved her as she was calling the police.
