The Laughing Gorilla (50 page)

luggage, missing

motive

“Mr. & Mrs. Meyers”

press coverage of

Ramon Lee Hughes (suspect)

razor used in murder

sailor as suspect

Slipton Fell and

Beale, Laura (victim)

“Beast, the”

Beatty, Clyde

Beery, Wallace

Bell, Anthony J.

Bemis, O’Bryan

Bengley, George

Berard, Mrs. John (victim)

Berger, Adolphus A.

Berkeley’s Scientific Police Department

Bernstein, Herman

Berta, George

Bertillon, Alphonse

“big ape”

Birdsall. J.

Black, Alma E.

Blackwell, Michael

Blaczensky, Otto

Blanquie

Bledsoe, Anthony

“Blight, Mrs.”

blind pig

bloating of skin

blood

“Bloody Thursday”

blowflies

Blusinky, William

Boberg, Joseph

Bosworth, Allan R.

Bowers, Mrs. Walter

Boyd, Harold

Brady, Matt

Brehmer, Oscar K.

Brereton, George

“Bridge of Sighs”

Bridges, Harry

Brier, Royce

Britt, M. L. “Jimmy”

Bromfield, John and Davenport

Broniscoe, Mrs. L. C.

Brooker, Ray

Brooks, Virginia (victim)

Brouders, Joseph

Brown, Harry

Brown, Mike

Brown, Page

Brownell, Don Carlos

Browning. A.

bruising of throat and strangulation

Brundage, Albert Harrison

Brunton, Mott Q.

Bucchiers, Louis

Buck, Frank

Bunner, Stephen

buoyancy of a corpse

Bureau of Identification

Burke, Tom

Burkhard, George

“Burly Lothario”
See also
Fell, Slipton

Burns, Frank

Burns, William J.

Busch, Margaritha

Caen, Herb

Calvert, Steve

Campanello, Genaro

Campbell, Alice “Princess”

Campbell. M.

Campbell, Jim

Capone, Al “Scarface”

Carlson, Theodore

Casey, Jim

Casey, John

Champ
,
The
(film)

Chandler, G.

Chandler, Irene (Mrs. Robert E. McCarthy) .
See also
Hotel Irwin autopsy murder

Charing Cross Station (London)

Cheeley, Louis

Cherborough, Raoul Louis

“Chicken Freak”

China Basin

Christal, Ed

Christison, Sir Robert

Civil Identification Section (FBI)

Claussen, Chris

Cleveland (Ohio).
See also
Kingsbury Run Butcher

Clock Tower

Clucky, Genevieve (Genevieve Montgomery “Jean”) (victim)

Cockroff, Marjorie

Coffin, Al “The Mouse” (Ernest Coffin)

Coffin, Bette (victim) .
See also
Bay Hotel autopsy murder

Coffin, Mr. and Mrs. Wellington

Coffin, Otis Leonard

Coffman, Al

Coffman, Bette.
See
Coffin, Bette (victim)

Coghlan, Nate

Coleman, Jim

Coleman, Tommy

Collins, John

Colonna, Charles

command structure of SFPD

Connelly, Harry

Cook, Edward J.

Cook, Florence (victim)

Cook, Fred (Corporal)

Cook, Jesse B.

Coolidge, Calvin (President)

Coombs

Cooper, Jackie

Copeland, Ed

copycats of Gorilla Man.
See also
Gorilla Men

Cornelius

Corporate Securities Act

Corrasa, Al

Corrigan, Ray “Crash”

corruption within SFPD.
See also
Dullea, Charles W. (Captain of Police Inspectors); Egan, Frank J. (public defender); Quinn, William J. (Chief of Police); White Mask Gang Charles Dullea and

graft and extortion investigation

listening device (Dictaphone) in jury room

Oliver Hassing “Dutchman of Richmond Station”

Rum Bribery Investigations

William Quinn and

Costello, Lou

Cotter, William

Cotton, A. R. (Judge)

Counderakis, Nick

Cousins, Blanche

Crabbe, Buster

Craven, Catherine

Creighton, Walter

Crocker, Templeton

Crosby, William

Cubitt, Florence “the Flying Nudist”

Cummings, Elmer

Curry, John A. (Chief of Police)

Damyn, Charles

Dana, Paul

Danahy, Pete

“Dark Strangler”
See also
Gorilla Man

Darren, Mrs. Burton

D’Ascanio, David “Human Gorilla”

Daugherty, Harry A. (Attorney General)

Davis, Bette.
See
Coffin, Bette (victim)

Davis, Flo.
See
Polillo, Florence Sawdey (victim)

Davis, John

Dawson, Jimmy

DeGuire, Art

Dematteis, Louis

Dennis, Mrs. Joseph

Department of Justice (DOJ)

Department of the Interior

Depression times

Desmond, Michael

de Young, Mike

Dictograph wire taps

Diefendorf, Fred

Dietrich, Marlene

Dill, Marshall

Dillinger, John

Dills, Clara P.

disfiguration of skin

district consolidations (SFPD)

dog robber

Doherty, Lawrence

Doherty, Mrs. Lawrence

Dolezal, Frank

Don Lee Network

Doran, Verne La Page

Dorgan, Tad

Doyle, Allie (victim)

drive-by killers

Dullea, Charles W. (Captain of Police Inspectors).
See also
Bay Hotel autopsy murder; corruption within SFPD; Egan, Frank J. (public defender); Fell, Slipton; Gorilla Man; Hotel Irwin autopsy murder; Hughes, Jessie Scott Johnson “Josie” (murder); Kingsbury Run Butcher; LaTulipe, Francis ; Malcolm, Wesley (murder); motives; Quinn, William J. (Chief of Police); sailor as Gorilla Man suspect; SFPD; White Mask Gang

admissibility of evidence Senate bill

April and

big cases handled by

changes in SFPD made by

Chief of Police promotion

citizens refusing to appear as witnesses

district stations consolidation

eyewitness testimony, mistrusted by

foreknowledge of murder of Josie Hughes

Francis LaTulipe and

Frank Egan and

Genevieve Montgomery “Jean” (Genevieve Clucky) case

horripilation experienced by

invisible clues

Louise Teuber case

lust murder

marksmanship of

office of

police cars upgraded by

reputation of

salary of

seamen murder cases

“seek the evidence” mantra

supervision of department under

tragedies (failures) in his life

Virginia Brooks case

wire taps (Dictograph)

Dullea, Charles W. (personal)

appearance of

background of

baseball fan

Charles Jr. “John” (son)

dishonesty, difficulty to perceive

dreams of Gorilla Man

Easter and Mount Davidson

Eddie (son)

family of

honesty of

Jack (son)

Marine Corps and

morality of

Winifred (wife)

Dunkel, Blanche

Dunn, Clara.
See
Polillo, Florence Sawdey (victim)

Dunn, Joseph

Dunne, Frank

Dunne, Gladys

Eastman, “Monk”

Ecker, E. E.

Eddowes, Catherine

Edmunds, Anna (victim)

Edwards, Arthur

Egan, Frank J. (public defender).
See also
corruption within SFPD; Dullea, Charles W. (Captain of Police Inspectors); Hughes, Jessie Scott Johnson “Josie” (murder); White Mask Gang abolition of public defender’s office petition

Albert Tinnin (Robert Knight) and

alibi of

anger at suspicion

Charles Dullea and

closing arguments in trial

“Czar of San Francisco” talk by

escape from jail

financial problems of

Florence Cook (victim)

Herbert Emerson Wilson and

hideout of

kidnapping of

Nathan S. Housman and

official misconduct of

Park West Sanitarium

power of

questioning by William Quinn

staff, “unnaturally large”

surrender of

surveillance of

trial

Verne La Page Doran and

Vincent Hallinan and

White Mask Gang and

William McGovern and

William Quinn and

Egan, Lorraine

Ehrlich, Jake

Elder, Hugh

“eleven car”

Ellsinger, Louis

Embarcadero

Engler, George

“Enigma Man”
See also
Fell, Slipton

Enright, Richard

Epstein, A. B.

Europe and Gorilla Men

extortion investigation (SFPD)

Fabian, Lillian

Farmen/Farnum, Dorothy (Winifred Hemmer “Boots”)

Farrell, John

Farrington, Mrs. William

Farrington, Peter M., Jr. “Whispering Gunman”
See also
Malcolm, Wesley (murder)

Farrington, Peter M., Sr.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Fell, Slipton

“accidental death”

acting ambitions of

Ada French-Mengler-Rice (victim)

alcohol impact on

Allan Bosworth and

Anna J. Selz (mother)

appearance of

Army Air Corps and

Bay Hotel autopsy murder and

blowflies

“Bromo”

“brother” of

bungalow of Ada Rice and

character analysis

confessions of

enlisting in Army

federal charges fear

financial troubles of

good-bye speech at prison

guilty plea of

identities (multiple) of

injuries of

jail incarceration of

John McCarthy and

laugh of

letters of accommodation written by

lie detector test

life sentence of

magnetism of

“Michael Baronovich”

“mother” of

motives of

nighttime drives along the coast highway

poison, Slipton’s interest in

press coverage of

psychological warfare by police

reenactment of murders

regret about murders, lacking

robbery hoax

sailor

San Francisco Chronicle
and

San Mateo Junior College and

San Quenton Prison and

superegoism

travels of

watches of

Wilma Heaton and

Winifred Hemmer “Boots” and

Fellom, Roy

Ferral, James

Ferrell, Gilbert D.

ferries

Ferry Building

Fields, Leo

fingerprint analyses

evidentiary tool

Francis LaTulipe and

first degree murders

Fitzpatrick, Frank

Fletcher, Bill

“floaters”

Fluke, Mabel (victim)

Flying Squad (motorcycle units)

Fogarty, Martin

Folsom Prison

Foran, Frank

Ford, Mrs. P.A.

foreknowledge of Josie Hughes’s murder

40th Infantry Division of the National Guard

Foster, Thomas

Fraley, Oscar

Frank, Richard (“Richard Frombee”)

Fraser, R. J.

Frasher, Paul

Fratis, Bruce

Frederickson, Otto

French, Fred

French, Hugh

French, Jack

French-Mengler-Rice, Ada (victim) .
See also
Fell, Slipton

French Ripper

Frigole, Americo

Frocade, Fred

“Frombee, Richard” (Richard Frank)

Fronek, Emil

Fuller, Evan Louis.
See also
Gorilla Man

Gallivan, Charles

Gamble, William

gambling, gross from

“gamekeeper’s thumb”

Gannon, Jerry

Gans, Joe

Garbor, Jacob

Gargantua

Gemora, Charlie

Gerber, Sam

Ghent, Flo.
See
Polillo, Florence Sawdey (victim)

Gibson, Harry

Gillen, Eddie

Gillen, Leslie

Gilmore, William

Girvin, William

Gloor, Ernest

Glover, Fred

Goebbels, Josef

Goff, Charles

Golden. M. (Judge)

Golden, Isador

Golden Gate Bridge

Golden Rule of Investigations

Gold Rush

Gordon, George (victim)