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NEW DAILY DEATH! Dec 6, 1934 – George Vickers, 57 year old mining engineer, jumps or falls to his death from a 6th floor window at the Rosslyn Hotel in downtown LA; but was it an accident or suicide?

NEW DAILY DEATH! Dec 8, 1929 – Gregory Woodford and JA Pursley fall from the 7th floor of the Hayward Hotel. They were sitting on the windowsill when Woodford had playfully slapped Pursley on the chest; Pursley overbalanced and fell, his legs tangling with Woodford's..

NEW DAILY DEATH! Dec 10, 1912 – Clark E. Dutton shoots himself at the Rosslyn Hotel in downtown LA. He left notes saying he had already tried taking a dose of morphine; pains from rheumatism and a degenerative disorder had made him feel he wanted to die before it was too late..

NEW DAILY DEATH 2! Dec 10, 1993 – Lem Quon, the long-time owner of the Formosa Café in West Hollywood, dies aged 83 – but famously his ghost still haunts the restaurant, especially one booth in particular…

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A few months ago W and I moved to Toluca Lake, and we love it here. I was thrilled that the re-launched Tolucan Times newspaper wanted me to dig through the archives looking for some crimes from local history.... the article is on p12 if you have a copy, but I'll post a link too.

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NEW DAILY DEATH! Dec 19, 1921 - Wallace G. Cushing, 40, is found with a .38 revolver next to him in his room at the Baltimore Hotel in downtown LA. He is not expected to survive the head wound.

Dec 19, 1954 - Mrs Susie Brown, 45, breaks her leg after falling - or jumping - from a 3rd floor window of the infamous Cecil Hotel in downtown LA.

Taken during the Xmas Parade, when I had two cups of that rarest of things: tasty and actually hot hot chocolate!

NEW DAILY DEATH! Dec 20, 1975 - on the 51st anniversary of the opening of the Cecil Hotel, an "unidentified female" suicide is found in one of their rooms.

NEW DAILY DEATH 2! Dec 20, 1975 - Earle Benedict Harris, 52, dies of a heart attack over his honeymoon breakfast. He and his wife had been college sweethearts 30 years earlier, but had married other people before reconnecting in later years...

NEW DAILY DEATH! Dec 30, 1940 - "JB Clarke" dies in hospital. He had registered at the Baltimore Hotel on Dec 23, and left a poetic letter before drinking two pints of whisky and reaching for a razor. But police still don't know his real name, nor exactly how he ended his life.

NEW DAILY DEATH! Dec 31, 1965 - at the Glenn Valley Motor Hotel in Studio City) now the Court Yard Hotel) Jean Green and Basil Mardis suicide by dropping cyanide pellets into a vacuum jug of sulphuric acid - the system used in prison executions. Both die within seconds...

NEW DAILY DEATH 2! Dec 31, 1927 - 6 year old WA Clark not expected to survive after being badly-burned when the Christmas tree in the Hotel Clark lobby caught fire, ignited by an electricity short circuit. Ethel Williams, 22, was also injured.

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