Putting the Noir back into Noirish L.A., Examiner style....
Attempt suicide (ocean at Venice), 19 November 1952. Mrs Bernice McClelland -- 24 years (victim) L/R, Venice lifeguard Bill O'Sullivan, who made rescue; Mrs Bernice McClelland, 24; Venice lifeguard Chuck King
Auto versus laundry truck crash (5th Street and Grand Avenue), January 23 1953....Bystanders turning the truck right-side-up to extricate driver.
Driver shown in street after truck righted.
Kid falls (apartment house at 334 South Figueroa Street), falls from porch, December 28 1952. Anna Lee Norton -- 6 years (on stretcher); Geraldine Norton (mother);
Apt House at 334 S Fig. showing top floor porch from which Anna fell.
Truck wreck at 4400 block on East Washington Boulevard, January 26 1953
Woman dead at Hotel Trenton, 427 South Olive Street, 6 June 1952....D.F Mortell (Fingerprint expert).....Mrs Bertha Waugh -- 23 years (victim) died of acute alcoholism.
Roberts suicide, 6 May 1952. Mrs Mary Lowell Roberts (victim); Officer Dan Christensen....note the composition on this one, with the officer's face framed in the table mirror.
Boy drowned (Eagle Rock), 15 May 1952. Kenneth Stolo -- 6 years (victim)...;Mr and Mrs Nick Stolo (Parents)....Pool where he drowned on grounds of Thomas Cheney -- 2527 Hill Drive.
News dealer murder (West Los Angeles), 31 March 1952. Fred C Bayha (victim, Examiner news dealer)
News dealer murder....Detective Don Shepherd (takes fingerprints from adding machine).
Nude photos, 22 April 1952....William H. Door -- 33 years
Mr. Door was peddling his smut out of this building, address unidentified.
Arroyo Seco Leaper, 14 April 1952. Unidentified body of man who leaped from York Boulevard Bridge onto out-bound lane of Arroyo Seco Parkway.
Attack suspects, 07 April 1952. Daniel Arzaga Briones -- 26 years; Frank F Rodriguez -- 25 years....I previously posted another Examiner photo of these gentlemen in close-up.