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A 90-year-old woman was found dead in her Arcadia home, an apparent murder victim.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 24, 1988
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 24, 1988
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p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Murder
Item ID
1379AN
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Police are looking into possible connections between 2 murders of elderly women that occurred January 7. Lillian Lehman, 91, was found dead at her Fashion Park Villas condominium in Arcadia, while Dora Peyton, 78, was beaten to death at her Duarte home.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 27, 1988
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p. A-2
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 27, 1988
Pages
p. A-2
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Murder - Lehman, Lillian
Item ID
1380AN
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Brian Snoke, sentenced to life in prison for three murders, claims he was a victim of child abuse.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 22, 1988
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 22, 1988
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Murder - Snoke, Brian
Item ID
1386AN
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A possible reversal of the death sentence verdict of Prentice Juan Snow is described. He was convicted of the murder Alfred Koll.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 31, 1982
Pages
"p. A1,2"
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 31, 1982
Pages
"p. A1,2"
Subjects
Murder - Koll, Alfred
Murder - Snow, Prentice Juan
Crime & criminals
Item ID
26977AN
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An international businessman was abducted from his Arcadia home and later released the same evening after his abductors demanded he pay them $1 million. He was told that he would be contacted the next day with instructions about where to put the money, but no money has been paid. This is the first kidnapping of this type in Arcadia, although there have been four other kidnappings in the San Gabriel Valley since last October.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 5, 1989
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 5, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
1394AN
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Brian Lawrence Snoke of Arcadia is taken into custody for questioning regarding the murder of Scott Edward Hutson of Arcadia and former Arcadia residents Robert Mark Green and Christina Rae Young.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 30, 1986
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p. A1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 30, 1986
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Crime and criminals - murder
Snoke, Brian Lawrence
Hutson, Scott Edward
Green, Robert Mark
Young, Christina Rae
Item ID
28139AN
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History-Rancho Santa Anita (1875-1909)-Elias J. Baldwin

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Start Date
1875
End Date
1909
Contents
1. " 'Lucky' Baldwin's retreat." Article by Susanna B. Dakin. 2. Article from Touring Topics, March 1929, page 41. 3. "One of many entrances to 'Lucky' Baldwin's ranch." Page from a Los Angeles Racing Association program, 1907. 4. "First street entrance to Fairyland Park, Baldwin's ranch." Page…
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Start Date
1875
End Date
1909
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1. " 'Lucky' Baldwin's retreat." Article by Susanna B. Dakin.
2. Article from Touring Topics, March 1929, page 41.
3. "One of many entrances to 'Lucky' Baldwin's ranch." Page from a Los Angeles Racing Association program, 1907.
4. "First street entrance to Fairyland Park, Baldwin's ranch." Page from a Los Angeles Racing Association program, 1907.
5. "Large oak tree, Hotel Oakwood, Baldwin's ranch." Page from a Los Angeles Racing Association program, 1907.
6. "Rancho Santa Anita."Lasca Leaves, March 1976, by Sandy Snider.
7. "Pastoral - it's scenes like this that gave Arcadia its name." News photo mounted on gray paper, circa 1950.
8. "This is Santa Anita." Arcadia Tribune, March 23, 1950. News photo of Baldwin store.
9. "Baldwin's boat house." Arcadia Tribune, August 11, 1960. News photo of boat house.
10. "List of ranches and acreage planted to various crops." Century Magazine, October 1883, Volume XXVI, Number 6. Compiled 1978.
11. "Last remnant of the Rancho." Thoroughbred, November 1965 by Dick Nash. Six pages.
12. "Days of yore - progress is wonderful, but ..." Arcadia Tribune, March 24, 1949. News photo of Baldwin cattle pastures.
13. " 'Beast' Baldwin and his two great loves." Sports Illustrated, February 19, 1962 by Dolly Connelly.
14. "1894 photo of the bell tower of Mission San Gabriel." Article confirming bell from Mission was at ranch.
15. "History of Santa Anita." Westways, October 1955 by M. Richard Marx.
16. "Life at Guenoc (breeding farm owned by Lily Langtree). Westways, August 1957 by Idwal Jones.
17. "Mission-period Rancho." Arcadia Tribune, April 2, 1978.
18. "About 1876 or 1877, Baldwin hired a distant relative, Julius A. Kelly." Los Angeles Herald Tribune, December 30, 1960. Typed notes.
19. "Rancho was lucky for Baldwin." Arcadia Tribune, April 6, 1978.
20. The Peacock Call, September/October 1978. Rancho area residents' newsletter with article and map on Ranch. Also: a chronology on Rancho by Joe Buck.
21. "Life and death." Golden West, January 1966, pages 20-21+. Regarding Workman and Temple tragedy.
22. Ad in Sierra Madre Vista for Baldwin store. March 16, 1889.
23. February 1889 notice in Sierra Madre Vista telling of corn sale by Baldwin.
24. Story of Blas Cuellar recalls days of Baldwin Reign; 40 descendants still live in Arcadia. Arcadia Tribune, March 24, 1949. Cuellar had come from Mexico.
25. Letter relating to observation of the Ranch in 1883. Article in Western States Jewish Historical Quarterly, March 1979.
26. "Baldwin large operator - acquired much land in Los Angeles County." Chapter 3 from the book _California Memories_ by Jackson A. Graves, published by Times Mirror Press, 1930. Copied at Huntington Library, 1979.
27. "Lucky Baldwin's energy turning to the swamp lands of his great ranch." Valley Vista, March 31, 1900. Regarding lands in El Monte and Savanna areas.
28. "Mr. E.J. Baldwin was presented with four Java oyster shells by a captain of a vessel from China." San Gabriel Valley News, March 28, 1878.
29. "The Los Angeles Herald recently contained the following about E.J. Baldwin's Santa Anita Ranch: a long account of the ranch and its developing." Sierra Madre Vista, February 5, 1891.
30. Boat house construction." Sierra Madre Vista, May 28, 1891.
31. "Baldwin money for road up Mount Wilson." Sierra Madre Vista, May 3, 1889.
32. "Brick manufacture at Santa Anita." Sierra Madre Vista, April 14, 1888.
33. "Banana trees." Sierra Madre Vista, May 31, 1889.
34. List of numbers of fruit trees, grape vines, and head of livestock. Sierra Madre Vista, January 15, 1891.
35. "Acreage being sold for small ranches." Sierra Madre Vista, November 20, 1890.
36. "Estimated worth of ranch, 1891. Sierra Madre Vista, August 13, 1891.
37. Description of ranch from newspaper. Sierra Madre Vista, January 8, 1890.
38. "E.J. Baldwin's Santa Anita ranch is undoubtedly the most beautiful." Los Angeles Daily Herald, March 30, 1887. Copied from the Los Angeles Public Library by Sandy Snider of the Los Angeles County Arboretum.
39. "Water." San Gabriel Valley News, February 28, 1878. Regarding Baldwin building flumes to carry water from Big Santa Anita Canyon.
40. "The Santa Anita Ranch." Two pages from California of the South, by Walter Lindley, publisher, 1888.
41. "The Builders. VI Where Ranch and City Meet." Outing, October 1906 by Ralph D. Paine.
42. "In 1880, 'Lucky' Baldwin orange grove of 75 acres at Sierra Madre was planted to navels." Historical Society of Southern California Bulletin, December 1943, page 152.
43. "A large number of fine varieties of plants received for Mr. Baldwin." San Gabriel Valley News, February 28, 1878. From the Huntington Library.
44. Map showing irrigated lands, canals, pipe lines and pumping plants in the Pasadena Quadrangle, 1907. Original owned by Mrs. Robert Pitzer.
45. Letter from H. Unruh to Richard Garvey on E.J. Baldwin office letterhead featuring Bird's Eye Map. Original owned by Jack Donnelly. Obtained March 3, 1981.
46. "Notice of claim to water." Legal notice filed by E.J. Baldwin on August 23, 1883 in Court in Los Angeles. Regarding his right to water from Santa Anita Canyon. Original at County Hall of Records.
47. "Santa Anita Store." Ad in Sierra Madre Vista, circa late 1880's.
48. The Land of Sunshine: a magazine of California and the Southwest, February 1898, edited by Chas. F. Lummis. Photos and mentions of Arcadia on marked pages.
49. "Typical views of California." Los Angeles Times. Large photographic prints. (NOTE: OVERSIZE! See bottom drawer of photo file cabinet with oversize photos.)
50. "Childhood visit to Baldwin home recalled by former Los Angeles mayor." Arcadia Tribune, April 23, 1956, page 1. Article and photo.
51. "Rancho Santa Anita once vast Baldwin empire of more than 54,000 acres." News clip, circa April 1948.
52. "Lucky Baldwin's Rancho Santa Anita." by Percy L. Bonebrake. From the Westerners Brand Book, Los Angeles Corral. Book six, Los Angeles Westerners, 1956, page 83-85.
53. "Elias Jackson 'Lucky' Baldwin and his Santa Anita Ranch." by Carey S. Bliss. From the Westerners Brand Book, Los Angeles Corral. Book six, Los Angeles Westerners, 1956, page 79-82.
54. "20 cents an acre! - The Santa Anita Rancho story." The Realty Scene, Pasadena (Ca.) Independent, January 11, 1953 by Independent Real Estate Editor, Jack Cressman.
55. Ad in the Monrovia Planet, January 15, 1887, page 2. For the sale of 5-20 acre lots (out of 2,000 for sale) by E.J. Baldwin.
56. Arcadia Notes in the Monrovia Planet, May 21, 1887, page 2. Regarding buildings and road work, etc. for Arcadia at that time.
57. Article in the Monrovia Planet, March 15, 1887, page 3. Regarding the sale of two lots by E.J. Baldwin to the two Studebaker brothers.
58. Articles regarding the orange trees E.J. Baldwin will set out. Monrovia Messenger, March 27, 1890 and November 13, 1890.
59. Article regarding the placing of several thousand acres of land on the Santa Anita Ranch by E.J. Baldwin. Monrovia Messenger, January 8, 1891.
60. Lucky Baldwin's Ranch: a Southern California paradise of sixteen thousand acres. (Description of the ranch). The Daily Constitution, March 22, 1877.
61. It was too much. (Description of the ranch). Chicago Daily Tribune, May 25, 1877.
62. Lucky Baldwin's Ranch. Chicago Daily Tribune, June 17, 1879. Description of the acreage, trees, fruits, etc.
63. Lucky Baldwin's 'Arcadia': establishes sporting city on Santa Anita Ranch in defiance of strenuous opposition. New York Times, June 23, 1903. Arcadia is incorporated, and it promises to be the "sportiest" place in the country, despite opposition from the State Anti-Saloon League. The town is located on Baldwin's ranch of 18,000 acres.
64. "A Corner in Arcady," a chapter copied from History of Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley California, Vol. 1 (1930) by Harold Carew.
Subjects
History-Rancho Santa Anita (1875-1909)-Elias J. Baldwin
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One robbery was foiled at Arcadia's Southland Bank, but earlier the same day another man got away with just over $1,000 from the First Interstate Bank on South Baldwin Ave.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 11, 1987
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 11, 1987
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
1371AN
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Arcadia police, working with other law enforcement agencies, uncovered a major auto theft ring operating in the San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys. Two men were arrested and four cars were recovered from a warehouse in Arcadia.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 18, 1989
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 18, 1989
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p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
1389AN
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A witness in the preliminary hearing of Brian Lawrence Snoke states that he was "going out to shoot these people" the morning that Scott Hutson, Christina Young and Robert Green were killed.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 21, 1986
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p. A1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 21, 1986
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Crime and criminals - murder
Snoke, Brian Lawrence
Huston, Scott
Young, Christina
Green, Robert
Item ID
28193AN
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A 105-square-mile agricultural quarantine on the San Gabriel Valley, due to the discovery of Medflies in Baldwin Park, includes a portion of Arcadia.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 30, 1981
Pages
p. A-1 Map
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 30, 1981
Pages
p. A-1 Map
Subjects
Plant Quarantine
Item ID
2176AN
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A 105-square-mile agricultural quarantine on th San Gabriel Valley due to the discovery of Medflies in Baldwin Park, includes a portion of Arcadia.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 30, 1981
Pages
p. A-1 Map
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 30, 1981
Pages
p. A-1 Map
Subjects
Plant Quarantine
Item ID
2176AN
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Former Arcadian Jeff Froke spent five years studying the parrots living wild in the San Gabriel Valley. He describes the different varieties and how the flock came to be established in the areas.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 28, 1981
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p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 28, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Birds
Item ID
610AN
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A second jury has recommended the death penalty for Prentice Juan Snow, convicted of killing Arcadian Alfred Koll, who operated Koll's Professional Pharmacy in Pasadena. Sentencing is expected on August 22.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 29, 1982
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p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 29, 1982
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Murder - Koll, Alfred
Murder - Snow, Prentice Juan
Item ID
1366AN
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Convicted killer Prentice Juan Snow receives the death penalty for the murder of Alfred Koll.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 17, 1982
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p. A1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 17, 1982
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Murder - Koll, Alfred
Murder - Snow, Prentice Juan
Crime & criminals
Item ID
26965AN
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Brian Lawrence Snoke, a 24-year-old Arcadia man, was found guilty of three murders in an attempt to assume control of a lucrative cocaine sales network.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 9, 1988
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 9, 1988
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Murder - Snoke, Brian
Item ID
1383AN
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Brian Snoke, an Arcadia man convicted of three murders, was sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 15, 1988
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 15, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Murder- Snoke, Brian
Item ID
1385AN
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Sam and Louise LaCorte have collected 24,671 signatures from people opposed to the parole of Richard Lanill Johnson, the man who killed their daughter. Johnson was convicted of shooting and killing Catherine LaCorte and Robert Morton in the foothills above Arcadia on February 11, 1976.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 24, 1982
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 24, 1982
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Murder - LaCorte, Catherine
Murder - Morton, Robert
Murder - Johnson, Richard Lanill
Item ID
1365AN
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Arcadian Bob Knox has been scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 5 for 18 years. He has been awarded the "Good Scout Award" by the San Gabriel Valley Council, Boy Scouts of America.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 1, 1981
Pages
p. A-2 photo
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 1, 1981
Pages
p. A-2 photo
Subjects
Knox, Bob
Item ID
1891AN
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According to West Covina Police Lt. David Shively, Arcadia High School student Matt Van Wickle was murdered during an argument he had with a man he met at Santa Anita Fashion Park.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 13, 1986
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 13, 1986
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Murder
Van Wickle, Matt
Item ID
1999AN
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