Wife Backs Up Mate She Says Fired At Her

July 7, 1947
Los Angeles

Who will ever understand the mind of a woman?

Nellie Robison was chased screaming from her home at 129 West Century Blvd. last night by husband Frank, 48-year-old welder. She was smart to run: Frank was firing .22-caliber bullets. Nellie found safety at a neighbor’s house, and cops finally rousted her old man after firing tear gas canisters (and gassing themselves on the upwind). Once Frank was cuffed, Nellie ran out and embraced him, calling him “Honey Boy,” and urging him to go along with the officers. Frank and his red-eyed captors adjourned to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital for eyewashes, and Frank was later booked at 77th Street Station on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.

We’ll assume his sweet Nellie will be waiting when, and if, he gets out.

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Kim Cooper

Kim Cooper is the creator of 1947project, the crime-a-day time travel blog that spawned Esotouric’s popular crime bus tours, including The Real Black Dahlia. She is the author of The Kept Girl, the acclaimed historical mystery starring the young Raymond Chandler and the real-life Philip Marlowe, and of The Raymond Chandler Map of Los Angeles. With husband Richard Schave, Kim curates the Salons and forensic science seminars of LAVA- The Los Angeles Visionaries Association. When the third generation Angeleno isn’t combing old newspapers for forgotten scandals, she is a passionate advocate for historic preservation of signage, vernacular architecture and writer’s homes. Kim was for many years the editrix of Scram, a journal of unpopular culture. Her books include Fall in Love For Life, Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth, Lost in the Grooves and an oral history of Neutral Milk Hotel.

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    Wreak Havoc in Hollister

    San Francisco Chronicle
    HOLLISTER, July 6—
    The diminishing roar of the
    last of 4000 departing motor-
    cycles today ended the “worst
    40 hours in Hollister’s his-
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    Police, who called outside
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    American Motorcycle Associa-
    Tion, took a deep breath.

    Nearly 100 persons were
    jailed during the ruckus and
    half as many injured, several
    seriously. More than $2000
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    number of jail sentences were
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    turbing the peace and reck-
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    San Benito St., main thor-
    oughfare, was littered with
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    There was no available es-
    timate of damage. At the
    height of the pandemonium
    the motorcyclists drove their
    vehicles into bars and restau-
    rants, tossed beer bottles out
    of upper-floor windows, raced
    through traffic signals and de-
    fied the seven-man police
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