Nov. 21, 1907
Los Angeles
The San Bernardino woman who threw her baby from an inbound train was arrested at her family’s home at 12th Street and San Pedro after the girl’s nurse contacted authorities, saying that she read about the incident in the newspaper and suspected the mother because the woman took the baby on a trip while leaving all the infant
Rolling Stone magazine, in a current feature on the growing influence of true crime blogs on the mainstream media, has named 1947project as one of the best stops on the Web. Making special note of the site’s year-long exploration of forgotten 1940s crimes, RS raves: "If you’re a fan of Raymond Chandler or Chinatown, this L.A.-noir site goes deep into the year 1947 and the murder of the Black Dahlia, positing the homicide as one of the most pivotal events in the city’s history.
Also singled out for notice in "Cyber Cops: Inside the frightening world of the Web’s original crime blogger" are Trench Reynolds of thetrenchcoat.com, Steve Huff of crimeblog.us, Mark Gribben of markgribben.com and the dark-side-of-myspace site mycrimespace.com.
We’re pleased to be in such good company, and welcome RS readers to explore our current site, a day-by-day accounting of L.A. in the year 1907, as well as our prior incarnation on blogger, where the subject was the 1947 of Beth Short, Bugsy Siegel and many other fascinating, forgotten figures. FYI, we also lead regular Crime Bus tours to scenes of mayhem and weirdness all around L.A., and hope local readers will subscribe to our email list to be kept informed of upcoming events, like this Saturday’s Pasadena Confidential tour, Weird West Adams on 12/16 and the 60th anniversary Real Black Dahlia tour on 1/13/07.
Nov. 20, 1907
Los Angeles
Police battling the current crime wave say they have arrested two men who staged daring holdups on the Ascot Park and Eastlake streetcars, robbing the motormen and conductors as the cars reached the ends of their routes. These holdups had so infuriated local officials that Chief Kern armed bicycle officers with shotguns and ordered mounted policemen to resume patrolling the city.
In each case, robbers waited at the end of a streetcar route, when the trolley was empty except for the motorman and conductor, overpowered the men and robbed them. The bandits only took money or guns.
Officials say that S.A. Kursting and Frank O
Nov. 19, 1907
Los Angeles
An influx of crooks, petty hoodlums and vagrants drawn by good weather and horse racing at Santa Anita are blamed for a siege of crime throughout the city. The jail is so crowded
Nov. 18, 1907November 17, 1907
Los Angeles
Mashers are at work across Los Angeles, although those at Levy’s Café certainly don’t have the cachet of a Caruso (or even of a Cazauran, I suspect) as reported on in Larry’s post below.
This time it was the work of ruffians, an all-too infrequently used word, which we at 1947project implore our readers to use at least thrice weekly henceforth.
In any course, Eugene Harrison, a “gentleman” by occupation, of 612 Figueroa Street, had taken his friends Mr. and Mrs. George Walters of 714 Figueroa, and one Miss Margaret de Baugh, a guest at the Hotel Ohio, 1104 East Seventh, off to Levy’s Café for some late-night comestibles and libations.
All was well until Harrison and Mr. Walters went off in search of a waiter so as to procure the group’s nightcaps, when in strolled a couple of rowdies. When Harrison and Walters returned they found their lady companions engaged in a struggle for some deep lip-lock with the burly intruders. Walters bravely ran off to find a policeman, whereas Harrison jumped upon the brutes, and by all accounts, put up a sturdy fight.
When Walters returned with a constable in tow, they found a supine Harrison, having received a broken nose and two black eyes for his trouble. The smooch-mad barbarians had fled.
The Walters’, and Harrison, recent and monied émigrés from Pittsburgh, are anxious to have the whole sordid affair hushed, but stated they were willing to testify against the mashers if the pair were ever arrested.
The former site of Levy’s Café now looks like this– 
….could this be an Edwardian-era building, remuddled into unrecognizability? Well, it’s late on a Friday night, or early on a Saturday morning, and I’m not about to go out investigating. But if it is an old building, I can conjecture with certitude that its interior no longer looks like this. 
As promised, here are views of the home of Mrs. E.N. Eskey, featured in The Times in 1907. Note the damaged chimney, presumably the victim of seismic Darwinism.
And as a bonus, here
Nov. 16, 1907Mrs. Amanda Cook (she is also identified as Jennie and Mary) came to Los Angeles from Boston in 1906 with two of her children in search of her husband, Frederick, a union plasterer and bricklayer. She advertised in the newspapers without success and finally took a job as a cook at the Juvenile Detention Home.
Persuaded by her cousin to seek a divorce, she hired attorney George W. MacKnight, who sought out her errant husband and began divorce proceedings.
One day, after being threatened with divorce, Frederick appeared at the juvenile home and upon seeing his wife, said:
Nov. 15, 1907
Los Angeles
Architect Charles Mulford Robinson has drafted a proposal for downtown Los Angeles that is stunning in its ambition. One portion calls for broad boulevard leading from a proposed Union Station at Central and 5th Street toward Grand, ending at a new public library and art gallery. The other, equally elaborate, calls for a grouping of civic buildings and terraced gardens around North Spring Street, including a new City Hall.
