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Index 219 Actors Fund of America Benefit, 81 Adams, David L., 95, 111, 128, 134, 142, 153 Alexandre, J. H., Junior, 37 Alvarado Court, 58, 59; burglary of Taylor ’s residence, 15, 86–87, 89; composite drawing of, 127; as crime scene, 91–92, 95–98, 135; detectives at, 93; diagram of, 135; neighboring tenants, 58; residents of, 25 The American Beauty, 54 Anne of Green Gables, 7, 59–60, 64–66, 166, 183 Arbuckle, Roscoe (Fatty), 20, 166, 170, 179 Arto, George F., 104 Ashford, “Red,” 39 autopsies: of suicide assumed to be Sands, 164–65; of Taylor, 104–5 Ayres, Agnes, 155 Baber, Eva A., 191–92 Bara, Theda (Theodosia Goodman), 53– 54, 62, 77 Barrett, J. G. “Black Bart,” 153 Bean, James, 152 Belasco, Sam, 72 Bell, Harvey, 152 Bellamy, Madge, 65 Bennett, Arnold, 75, 76, 77 Berger, Marjorie, 22, 23, 107, 108, 111, 197, 198, 204 Bern, Paul, 81 Beyond, 79, 80–81 Big Timber, 54 Biscaluiz, Eugene W., 151, 163 blackmail as motive, 130, 134–35 Blue, Monte, 73, 180, 184 body: autopsy of, 104–5; Eyton’s examination of, 93–94, 125; position of, 93, 125, 203 Booth, David, 205 Booth, Evangeline C., 158 Boruff, Earl, 186–87 Bowman, William J., 43 Bradley, David, 13 Braker, Henry J., 32, 33, 36–37 Brettner, George S., 142–43 Brown, Frank, 184 Brown, John, 159 Brown, Thad, 3 Browning, Robert, vii Bryson, Frank, 110, 127, 128, 129, 134 Buckner, Samuel G., 98 bullets: as evidence, 126, 184, 190; hidden by Eaton, 73, 172 Burch, Arthur J., 118–19 burglary, 15, 86–87, 89; as motive, 152 Burns, Edith, 176 Burton, H. L., 144 Busch, May, 83 Butler, Ivy C., 117 Cahill, William M., 98, 124, 126, 128 Cahoun, Gilbert, 164 Campbell, Maurice, 111 Cantillon, Richard F., 199 Capehart, Ethel Daisy Deane-Tanner Robins, 35, 44, 50, 55–57, 70, 78–79, 82, 83, 122, 137, 193, 205 Captain Alverez, 43–44 Captain Kidd Junior, 55 Carson, Frank, 162 Casablanca, 205 Cato, Ray, 124, 126, 128, 165, 190, 196 cause of death, 93–94, 104–5, 125, 126 Chaplin, Charlie, 21, 171, 176, 190 Charles, Perry M., 171 Chase, William Sheafe, 158 China, 26 Chinese secret societies and gangs, 75, 88, 114, 150, 152 Clark, Johnnie, 146 Clarke, Harry Corson, 40 Cleveland, George, 37, 40 Clifford, Kathleen, 66–67, 168 Cline (police officer), 124, 126 Cock, Andrew, 153 Collins, “Dapper Don,” 134–35 Colorado, 39–40 Compson, Betty, 11–13, 12, 19, 65, 86, 101, 137, 138, 161, 169–70, 175, 190, 203, 205 confessions, false, 145–47, 149 Convention of States Motion Picture Owners, 157 Conway, Jack, 81 Coogan, Joseph, 182 Cooper, Jessie and Maudie, 151 correspondence: between Ethel Daisy Deane-Tanner and Taylor, 78–79; as evidence, 122, 124, 127–28, 134; Eyton removes from crime scene, 94–95, 127, 134; Ivers removes letter, 95; leads received by Woolwine, 149, 157; between Minter and Taylor, 65–66, 79, 87, 99, 99, 110–11, 183; between Normand and Taylor, 81–82, 85, 127–28, 134, 140, 141–42; Sands, letters allegedly from, 157, 187 corruption in Los Angeles, film industry as immoral, 158–59 Corson Clarke, Harry, 40 The Counterfeiters, 43 Crawford, Arthur J. (Arthur J. “Archie” Taylor), 31–32, 36, 37, 38, 48, 77 Crenshaw, James, 200 crime in Los Angeles, 114–15, 117 crime scene: composite drawing, 127; contaminated/uncontrolled, 91–92; detectives at, 93; diagram of Alvarado bungalow court, 135; Minter’s visit to, 109; neighbors at, 25; reporters at, 95–98 Crisp, Donald, 81 Cruze, James, 11 Cryer, Mayor George E., 116–17 A Cumberland Romance, 72–73 Cummings, William E., 117 Dascomb, F. W., 102 Davenport, Fanny, 30–31 Davis, William, 25, 124, 162, 168, 175 Davy Crockett, 54 Dawson, Yukon Territory, 38–39, 40 Deane-Tanner, Ada Charlton Brennan, 36, 37, 41, 77–78, 85, 122–23, 194–95 Deane-Tanner, Alice, 123 Deane Tanner, Charles, 27–28 Deane-Tanner, Denis Cunningham, 26, 35, 36, 40–42, 137, 194–95, 206; as suspect , conflated with Sands in the press, 123, 190, 194–95 Deane-Tanner, Ethel Daisy. See Capehart , Ethel Daisy Deane-Tanner Robins Deane-Tanner, Jane O’Brien, 26–27, 40, 41, 57, 70 Deane-Tanner, Lizzie “Daisy,” 26, 31 Deane-Tanner, Muriel Denise, 36 Deane-Tanner, Oswald, 26 Deane-Tanner, Major Thomas Kearns, 26–27, 34 decorating business, 31–32, 34, 35, 36, 37 DeMille, Cecil B., 72, 80, 88, 112, 136, 137, 155...

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