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About this Book
San
Francisco
has had more than its share of truly fascinating and historic homicides.
The city and its Bay Area can stand proudly with Paris, London, and New York in the splendor of its misdeeds—murders that
have suspense, horror, audacity, and flair.
The homicides
chronicled in Murders by the Bay, have been selected because a convergence
of personality, circumstance, character, and geography makes them
peculiarly San Franciscan.
Each of these crimes
illustrates an historic importance, each has
impacted its times—either in the course or application of the law or in the
manner in which the affair revealed a shortcoming in society.
They range from the
Montgomery Street killing of James King of William, editor of the Daily
Evening Bulletin, in 1856 to the sensational trial of early movie comedian
Fatty Arbuckle who was accused of killing a showgirl at a party in the St.
Francis Hotel to the shocking “City Hall Murders” in which former city
supervisor Dan White killed Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey
Milk.
Most were solved, some
were not. They are murders that fascinated the city and frequently the
country, sometimes for weeks, often for years and even decades.
Table of Contents
1. The Doomed Editor -
1856
2. The Senator and The
Justice - 1859
3. The Misused Mistress
- 1870
4. The Publisher and
The Preacher - 1880
5. The Phosphorescent
Brides - 1885
6. The Revenge of the
Tongs - 1887
7. The Belle In The
Belfry - 1895
8. The Stockton Trunk Stuffer - 1906
9. The Movie Star and
The Party Girl - 1921
10. Mr. Schwartz, Mr.
Warren and Mr. Barbe -1925
11. The Vengeful Valet
- 1930
12. The Last Lynchings
- 1933
13. The Alameda Enigma - 1955
14. Labor in the
Crosshairs - 1966
15. The Sign of the
Zodiac - 1970’s
16. The City Hall
Murders - 1978
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