Charles H. Crawford
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Charles H. Crawford was an American political figure. In the 1920s, his loosely organized crime syndicate in Los Angeles, California, was known as the "City Hall Gang". Crawford was reportedly a model
Crawford in 1930
George E. Cryer was Mayor of Los Angeles during the period of Crawford's peak influence.
Westminster Presbyterian Church was built in 1931 as St. Paul's Presbyterian Church. Declared City of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 229 in 1980.
Crawford's widow built Crossroads of the World (pictured) on the site where Crawford was shot.
Between 1926 and 1928, Canadian Gordon Stewart Northcott abducted and murdered three boys, and was implicated, but not convicted in the murder of a fourth boy, in Los Angeles and Riverside counties, C
Charles H. Crawford
…indictment on bribery charges, Crawford was baptized and admitted into the membership of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church. The pastor at St. Paul's was Rev. Gustav A. Briegleb, the noted minister portrayed by John Malkovich in the 2008 film Changeling. On the day of his baptism, Crawford placed a ring set with two large…
Northcott's ranch
California State Reform School in Whittier, California, circa 1901