Here's a teeny-tiny Los Angeles connection to one of the more fascinating crimes of the 1920s, one I hadn't come across before in reading about the Leopold & Loeb case. It seems that Nathan Leopold's father, NL Sr, a widower since 1921, married Daisy K. Hahn of LA in Chicago on October 3, 1927. He died there less than two year later, just after returning from spending the winter in California. The couple appears to have lived at 4409 Francis Ave in a duplex that has since been replaced with an apartment building. Mrs. Leopold seems to have been fond of the name Francis--on her return to LA after her husband's death, she leased an apartment at the new Sir Francis Drake at 841 S Serrano...one of the big residential buildings that rose in Pellissier Square after the single-family-house restriction was lifted in 1928. We've touched on these buildings at NLA before, but here's a little more on the subject:
LAT Oct 28, 1929
LAPL/LAT Oct 28, 1928
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