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Police File Documents
(courtesy of Sidney D. Kirkpatrick)
• Excerpts of Witness Statements 1922-1936 [PDF file]
• Statement of Miss Mary Miles Minter, February 7, 1922 [PDF file]
• Memorandum Re. James Kirkwood and Mary Miles Minter [PDF file]
Taylor’s Birth and Death Certificates
• William Desmond Taylor’s Birth Certificate
(as William Cunningham Deane Tanner) [PDF file]
• William Desmond Taylor’s Death Certificate [PDF file]
Coroner’s Inquest
• Copies of Inquest File [PDF file]
• Coroner’s Record: Page 1, Page 2
• Retyped inquest transcript
Miscellaneous
• 1920 Census for Alvarado Court Apartments [PDF file]
[Note: This file is very large and should be downloaded rather than viewed in
a web browser. When viewed, zoom in to see the individual entries.]
Edward Sands
• The Daily Bulletin, L.A.P.D., February 7, 1922
• 1915 Court Martial Proceedings of Edward Snyder [PDF file]
(portions were transcribed in Taylorology 25)
[Note: This file is very large and should be downloaded rather than viewed in
a web browser.]
• Draft registration of Edward Snyder
The Shelby Family
• Libel Suit filed by Charlotte Shelby in 1935, containing Leslie Henry testimony
extracts [PDF file]
(portions were transcribed in Taylorology 5)
• Birth Certificate of Mary Miles Minter (some data, including the name, is
probably incorrect, see “What was the Real Name of Mary Miles Minter?” in
Taylorology 22)
• Birth Registry for Caddo Parish, Louisiana, April 1902: left side, right side
(the entry for Mary Miles Minter is underlined, see Taylorology 22)
• Death Certificate of Margaret Shelby
• Death Certificate of Charlotte Shelby
• Depositions of Charlotte Shelby given in a 1930s lawsuit against a brokerage
firm [PDF file]
(portions were transcribed in Taylorology 35)
[Note: This file is very large and should be downloaded rather than viewed in
a web browser.]
• Depositions of Margaret Shelby Fillmore given in a 1930s lawsuit against a
brokerage firm [PDF file]
(portions were transcribed in Taylorology 69)
• 1933 Testimony of Leslie Henry in his criminal trial for forgery and grand theft:
Part 1, Part 2 [PDF files]
(portions were transcribed in Taylorology 35)
• 1933 Testimony of Eva Adeline Berber in Leslie Henry’s criminal trial for
forgery and grand theft [PDF file]
(portions were transcribed in Taylorology 41)
Responses to Inquiries
• L.A. Police Department says “it seems those records disappeared”
• L.A. County Sheriff’s Office says “all of our investigative files for that
era have been purged”
• L.A. District Attorney’s Office says “we have been unable to locate any
files from those investigations of long ago”
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