Sandwich of Mystery

November 6, 1947
Los Angeles

When asked why he had attempted to kidnap Celina Jarmillo, 18, as she was leaving work at 1427 E. Fourth Street, Raymond Adame, also 18, explained: “Last April she made me a sandwich of potatoes, beans and macaroni, and, according to our legends, she bewitched me. I couldn’t get out of her spell.” A later reports added fish eyes to the sandwich ingredients, and Farmer’s Market columnist Fred Beek suggested this might be a good addition to a meatless Tuesday menu.

In any case, Celina’s witchery must still have been working, because a radio car drove by just as Raymond tried to make the snatch. He’s down at Hollenbeck cooling his heels. Adame usually resides at 206 N. Clarence Street, Jarmillo at 5927 Fifth Ave.

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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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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  1. Officer Kills Man—Struggling with Police Officer J.L. Brown, attempting to arrest him for burglary of a market at 10807 Avalon Blvd., Clarence Wallas, 25-year-old Negro of 488 E. 41st St., was shot and killed. Radio Patrol Officer R.F. Williams captured Wallas’ asserted partner, Roosevelt Everline, 22, of 488 E. 41st, as he assertedly attempted to flee in a car.

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    The Times did absolutely no follow-up to this incident as to whether Everline was tried in the burglary, nor was there any apparent investigation of the officer-involved shooting. Of course, in the 1940s, police shootings were rarely if ever investigated.

    Public records shed little light on Wallas, except that he was born in Texas and apparently had no Social Security number. Everline (SS# 467-22-4104), who died in Virginia in 1981, was also born in Texas, but there’s no further information.

    Brown and Williams responded to a domestic dispute shortly before Christmas in which Dorothy Sanford of 5519 S. St. Andrews Place shot her husband, Louis, three times. Apparently Louis’ family had come to stay with the Sanfords “for a few daysâ€Â six weeks earlier and bickering had ensued.

    Brown never reappeared in The Times, but Williams served for several years in the LAPD intelligence unit, investigating such cases as the Sam Rummel murder.

    The market burned in 1960 and its surviving contents were auctioned off.

    In 1948, another resident of 488 E. 41st St., Prentiss Lanford, was involved in a car crash that destroyed large number of records that he and two companions were transporting. One surviving disc, according to The Times, was “Road Boogie,â€Â but whether this was Curly Rash’s “Humble Road Boogieâ€Â is undetermined.

    Quote of the day: “In my type of work I don’t wear many clothes. He thought it was degrading when it is really interpretative and highly artistic.â€Â
    Flo Ash, “The Cutest Little Nudist,â€Â during divorce proceedings against husband Pietro Gentile, operatic baritone.

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