The Laughing Gorilla: A True Story of Police Corruption and Murder
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special-duty unit
tear gas
Teletype system for communications
True Detective Magazine
Wesley Malcolm and
radio and Quinn
Randolph, Jennie (victim)
Rappe, Virginia
Rawlings, Mrs. Ted
Readick, Frank
Redmond, Ian
Regina, Saskatchewan
Reid, Joseph M.
Reilly, Bernard
religious mania of Gorilla Man
Remmer, Bones
Renoe, A. J.
Renton, William
Riccardi. Vincent
Rice, Charles Freeman
Rice, Harry
Rice, Margaret
Richards, George
Richmond, Everett (victim)
“riding academy”
Riedel, Albert
Rinehart, James
Riordan, Michael
“rip job”
“Roaring Third, The”
“Roar of the Four”
Robinson (Judge)
Roche, Theodore
Rockwell, Bobbie
Roderick, Frank
Rolph, “Sunny Jim,” Jr.
Romola, Joe
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Rose, Upton. See also Fell, Slipton
Rossi, Angelo
Rowan, Mickey
Rowe, Mary
Ruef, Abe
Rum Bribery Investigations
Russell, Ollie (victim)
Ruth, George Herman “Bambino,” “Sultan of Swat”
Rutledge, William P.
safe mobs
sailor as Gorilla Man suspect
Bay Hotel autopsy murder
Charles Dullea and
Hotel Irwin autopsy murder
Kingsbury Run Butcher
Slipton Fell
San Francisco. See also corruption within SFPD; Dullea, Charles W. (Captain of Police Inspectors); Egan, Frank J. (public defender); Quinn, William J. (Chief of Police); SFPD
ferries
Gold Rush
hoodlum, originating in
journalism in
labor riots
Mooney (Tom) bomb plot days
quake and fire (1906)
streetcars
total eclipse
vice in
San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner
San Francisco City Guide
San Francisco News
San Quentin Prison
Savage, Thomas S.
Scalisi, John
“scarf-skin”
Schainman, Paul
seamen murder cases
second degree murders
“seek the evidence” mantra
Selbje (Captain)
Selchaw, T. L.
Sells, Ralph. See also Fell, Slipton
Selz, Anna J.
Selz, Heinrich Fritz Ralphe Jerome von Braun . See also Fell, Slipton
Semeria, Rev. Father Walter
sex crime era
sexual appetite and perversion of Gorilla Man
SFPD. See also corruption within SFPD; Dullea, Charles W. (Captain of Police Inspectors); Quinn, William J. (Chief of Police)
“Bloody Thursday”
command structure
detained prisoners
HOJ “Old Girl”
“in the business” vs. “on the force”
“Irish demotion”
Press Room
Rules and Procedures
Shadow, The (radio show)
Shahati, Eddie
Shannon, Patrick
Shaw, George Bernard
Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald
Sheehan, Frank
Sheehy, Roland
Shumate, Thomas E.
Sietsema, Mary (victim)
Silva (Chief)
silverback gorillas
Silverman, Isadore
Single Latent Fingerprint Section (FBI)
Sing Sing Prison
Skelly, Charles
Skidmore, M. J.
Skillin, Harmon
Skrovan, Frank
Smeins, John
Smith, Bruce
Smith, Ed
Smith, Evelyn
Smith, George
“South of the Slot”
Sperry, Howard
Spilsbury, Lord
Spooner, Vince
St. Francis Hotel
St. Mary, Lillian (victim)
Stanton, William
Starr, Kevin
Steckel, Roy E.
Stelzner, John
Stephani, Fred
Stidger, Mrs.
Stitt, Arthur
Stockdale, May (Harmonica Nell)
Stone, Elton M.
Stone, Harlan Fiske
Storey, Wayne
Strange, Shelby
“Strangle Murderer”See also Gorilla Man
strangulation
streetcars
strength of Gorilla Man
Stubley
Sudari, Tony
Sudoni, Tony
Sullivan, Jack
Sullivan, Matt
Summers, Mary (victim)
Sweeney, Francis Edward
Sylvester, Richard
Taaffe, John J.
Tageblatts
Taggert (Dean)
Tardieu spots
Tarr, Hewlett (victim)
Tatham, Richard
Tatoo Identification File
“tattooing” of Malcolm’s uniform
Taylor, Nick
Teapot Dome Scandal
Teletype system, communications
Terror Bandits
Teuber, Louise murder
Thurmond, Harold
tire marks analysis
Torre, Emil
Torres, Vincent
Toschi, Dave
Toschi, Joseph
total eclipse
Trabucco, J. J.
Trabucco, Tony
tragedies (failures) in Dullea’s life
Tramutolo, Chauncey
Traung, Charles
traveling serial killer (first) . See also Gorilla Man
True Detective Magazine
Tyrolean Ripper
Tyrrell, Edward
uncontrollable impulses of Gorilla Man
Undersea Kingdom (series)
United States. See also Dullea, Charles W. (Captain of Police Inspectors); San Francisco
criminals (number of)
Depression times
fingerprints as evidentiary tool
Prohibition
sex crime era
“Untouchables, The”
U.S. Secret Service
Vacher (French Ripper)
Vanderbilt, Cornelius
van der Zee, Herman
Van Horn, Emil
vara
vice in San Francisco. See also corruption within SFPD
victims of Gorilla Man. See also Bay Hotel autopsy murder; Hotel Irwin autopsy murder; Newman, Clara
Vollmer, August
Volstead Act
von Feldman, Otto
von Selz, Jerome Braun and Ralph Jerome. See Fell, Slipton
Wachsman, Herbert
Wafer, George “Paddy”
Wagner (Senator)
Wagner, Jimmy
Waldeck, Adolph
Waldman, Sam
Wallace, Rose (victim)
Walsh, Jane
Walsh, John
Walter, Albert
Walther, Mrs. Fred
Wanworthy, Dorothy (Winifred Hemmer “Boots” )
Warren, Earl
“washerwoman’s skin”
water and corpses
Webb, Doug
Weber, August and Katie
Weeks, Larry
Weiner, Lillian (victim)
Weitzel, Harvey
Welles, Orson
Werder, William
West, William
Whispering Gunman. See Farrington,
Peter M., Jr.
White, J. E.
Whitechapel (London)
White Mask Gang
end of
Francis LaTulipe and
Frank Egan’s protection of
“lock shot” method
nitroglycerin used by
Phantom
professional amateurs
robberies by
trial
Wide, Faran. See also Fell, Slipton
Wiener, Albert
wild vs. captive gorillas
Wiley, Ralph
“Wilkins, Mr. & Mrs. J.”. See also Hotel Irwin autopsy murder
Wilson, Clarence
Wilson, Herbert Emerson
Wilson, Roger. See also Gorilla Man
Winchell, “Cabbage Head”
Winters, Ed
wire taps (Dictograph)
Withers, Beata (victim)
Wobber, William
Wobke, Herman
Woodcots, Mr.. See also Gorilla Man
Woodring, William
Woodside Glen. See Fell, Slipton
Wren, Bill “Iron Duke”
Wright Act
Xaver (Tyrolean Ripper)
“yeggs”
Yeiser, Jimmy
Yelavich, Frank
Zalewski, Martin
Zanardi, Louis
1
Charles Jr. would later become president of the University of San Francisco; John, a professor of theology at Santa Clara University; and Ed, the partner of famed attorney Jake Ehrlich who called Captain Dullea “one of the city’s toughest, straightest and best cops.”
2
In 1932, cops nailed Farrington’s partner, George Berta, in Seattle after a fierce gun battle.
3
A prohibition bar that worked under the knowledge of the police by payoff.
4
A thief, especially a safecracker, from John Yegg, the first safecracker to use nitroglycerin to break into a safe.
5
Arrested on March 4, 1918, while driving a stolen car—case dismissed; 1928, charged with attempted burglary at 1938 Post Street—case dismissed; 1930, charged for concealed weapons—case dismissed; 1932, robbery charge—case dismissed. Frank, first arrested in San Francisco on December 31, 1914, for robbery, served a year in the county jail. Sentenced from one to fifteen years in the Washington State Penitentiary for robbery, he got paroled in October 1919 and in January was sentenced to 180 days in jail at Portland for burglary. Beginning in 1920, in charges ranging from narcotics to assault to murder and battery, every San Francisco case against Frank was dismissed.
6
Now Bayview.
7
The Old Mint had been the only banking institution to survive the 1906 quake and fire, when employees, armed with only a one-inch hose saved the building and $200 million in gold bars. Ironically, with widespread poverty all around, one-third of the nation’s gold reserve was stored there.
8
Frank Buck was an American collector of, and authority on, wild animals. He had collected more than twenty-five thousand specimens of wild animals, including gorillas; in 1931 he wrote the best-seller Bring ’Em Back Alive.
9
Plans were already under way to close the Mint and move operations to a new mint. During World War II, Dullea and a skeleton crew of officers would protect the Old Mint and even camouflage it in black paint to conceal it during any air raids.
10
Car engine oil, decayed blood, and long strands of black human hair.
11
Among the chiefs from forty-seven states set to attend the thirtieth annual convention at Buffalo, New York, on June 11, 1923, were Chief Harper; Joseph M. Quigley, chief of Rochester, New York, Police Department; Michael T. Long, chief of Newark, New Jersey, Police Department; John A. Curry of Niagara Falls, New York; and William P. Rutledge, superintendent of police in Detroit, Michigan.
12
By December 1935 the records would swell to 6,292,383. During the previous fiscal year, the FBI had made 304,033 successful criminal identifications from prints, a success rate Hoover gleefully estimated at 47.8 percent. Of the total prints identified 4,403 belonged to fugitives from justice.
13
On May 1, 1932, LAPD Chief Roy E. Steckel got his department its first FCC license.
14
Gargantua, the Ringling Brothers star ape and the 1933 film King Kong had excited Hollywood about gorillas. Both Republic and Columbia Pictures started off their movie serial production schedules with jungle films featuring gorillas and starred famed wild animal trainers Clyde Beatty and Frank Buck.
15
Prohibition began on January 16, 1920, with the Eighteenth Amendment and later reinforcement of the Volstead Act. It was repealed in December 1933, and the country made legally wet again.
16
1. Santo Batista: fractured skull, March 1934, aboard the S.S. Susan V. Luckenback. 2. Vincent Torres was hurled to death from a window of the Ship Scalers’ Union in September. 3. Otto Blaczensky, deck engineer aboard the freighter Minnesotan, was drowned in mud. 4. William V. McConologue was murdered on the steamer Cottoneva.
17
The Point Lobos would strike a rock in heavy fog on June 22, 1939, and go to the bottom.
18
From 1927 to 1937 was San Francisco radio’s Golden Decade, when many nationwide network broadcasts originated there. Both NBC and CBS maintained production centers in the city, and a third NBC network, the Pacific Orange Network, re-created the same programs heard in the east on the Red Network.
19
The McDonoughs finally outsmarted themselves when they tried to pass legislation to corner the bail bond market in the state. In 1941 their tiny bail bond brokerage office at Clay and Kearney became just another dusty cigar store after Dullea and the newly-formed state insurance department made it a crime for anyone with a criminal record to run a bail bond operation.
20
The standard Mexican land measurement.
21
There were a couple of false alarms: On August 24, a man without hands and legs washed ashore onto Gordon Park Beach on the East Side. Strands of rotting rope were entangled around the stumps, but sharp rocks and boat propellers had severed his extremities, not a killer. An amputated right foot found in the city dump turned out to be hospital refuse.
22
Ecker had no idea what color G. V. Lyons’s test presumptive had revealed: pink, blue, or green. Reduced phenolphthalein, potassium hydroxide, and zinc produce a pink. Benzidine combines with sodium perborate, glacial acetic acid, and peroxidase to produce a vivid blue. The leuco malachite test makes a bright green. Ecker soaked the material in saltwater, added serum from an animal immunized with human blood to the test tube, and waited in vain for a color and white ring to appear.
23
After the October 1989 earthquake, the Ferry Building’s Big Clock would stop at the instant of the quake—5:07. In May 1992 the double-decked Embarcadero Freeway hiding the Ferry Building would be demolished as new ferries began steaming across San Francisco Bay to Marin again. Where the Bay Hotel had been, lush Justin Herman Plaza would stand, becoming a place where families could picnic. Farther down, the Bay Bridge still soared directly above where Officer Malcolm lost his life. Today the roar of cars passing above can be plainly heard, and if one looks closely traces of the great stain still remain.
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Dedication
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Acknowledgements
Author’s Note
Selected References
Index