November 12, 2009 | 8:00
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November 9, 2009 | 2:00
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Nov. 9, 1909: Emma Rogers divorced her husband, then began having hallucinations when she failed to reconcile with him and he remarried. She tried to kill herself in a restroom at the Chamber of Commerce, but her aim was bad and she only wounded herself.
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November 8, 2009 | 2:00
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Nov. 8, 1909: The yearly season of petty crimes opens in Los Angeles, according to The Times, with a burglar who ate half a loaf of bread, some peach preserves and helped himself to $3 in a savings bank. [Update: they were pear preserves, as a reader noted].
It’s hard to match “Blows Out His Brains” as a one-column headline.
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October 22, 2009 | 4:00
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September 12, 2009 | 2:00
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Sept. 12, 1909: Winsor McCay's "Little Nemo in Slumberland." McCay's drawings are a mixed blessing. He was a wonderful artist with a fabulous imagination -- and he drew this appalling character, Imp.
A police automobile speeding on a call crashes into a buggy, injuring the driver, George W. Slaton, "an aged Negro" who was deaf and didn't hear the officers' warnings.
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Edward G. Martin, sentenced to two years in prison for a shooting that left his wife paralyzed, puts up an incredible fight against the officers of the court before being choked into submission. He yelled: "I'll not serve two years; I'll not serve one year; I'll not serve an hour; you can shoot as quick as you like."
Martin shot his wife three times and tried to commit suicide, but failed. The defense contended that the shooting was "justified in a measure because of the fact that Martin's wife had been untrue to him and that he was subject to spells that at times, for a series of years, made him mentally incompetent."
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August 23, 2009 | 2:00
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