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This diagram shows how a group of mystery men assertively spied from a "hide-out" house on the home of Harry Raymond from last September until three days after he was bombed. Neighbors of Raymond have identified the mystery occupants as Capt. Earl Kynette of the police "trouble shooting" squad and certain of his officers. The man tapped Raymond's telephone. Photo date: January 20, 1938.
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It was just a little "acorn," that $2,990 political debt suit filed by Ralph Gray. And yet in a short time it has grown into the Harry Raymond bombing case, the mightiest "oak tree" of political sensations that Los Angeles has known in years, a case in which thousands upon thousands of dollars are being spent upon investigations and prosecutions and in which all sorts of dark charges are being hinted. The "acorn" was the $2,990 judgment won by Ralph Gray from Harry Munson, Mayor Shaw-appointed former Police Commissioner, for whom Gray worked in the first Shaw campaign. Harry Raymond became interested in helping Gray collect the money and seeing where Munson got asserted funds in the Shaw campaign. The prosecution charges the police secret "spy squad" was told to watch Raymond because of the Munson case and it further charges that Earle Kynette, chief of the squad, bombed Raymond to keep him quiet about Munson's asserted political collections. Photo date: April 29, 1938.
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Convicting Earle Kynette of the police "spy squad" of bombing Harry Raymond, the jury in the sensational case on June 16, 1938, brought in its verdict. The photo shows the three defendants. Left to right, Roy Allen, who was convicted of the malicious use of explosives; Captain Kynette, who was convicted of attempted murder, assault with intent to commit murder, and malicious use of explosives; and Fred Browne, acquitted of all charges.
May 18, 1942: Former Police Officer Roy J. Allen, who was convicted with Earle Kynette in the 1938 Harry Raymond bombing, dies in the hospital at San Quentin. He was 38. Kynette was paroled in 1948 despite Raymond's protests. His wife had divorced him while he was in prison. He was sent back to San Quentin in 1951 for violating his parole after he was convicted of being drunk. He was freed again in 1952. His pharmacist's license was restored and he was working in a drugstore in Twain Harte, Calif., when he was charged with drunk driving in a car accident that killed two people. He was later cleared.
In 1963, Kynette was stabbed in the abdomen and left arm during a drunken fight in a skid row hotel in Oakland. He died June 3, 1970 in West Hollywood. He was born June 18, 1893 in Iowa.
Officer Fred A. Browne, who was cleared in the case, died of a heart attack the next year in a Vermont Avenue bowling alley.
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Detective Lieutenant L. G. White is shown investigating the damage to Harry Raymond's car, caused by the bombing. Photo taken January 14, 1938.
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"Whether I'm in the hospital or in court, I'll be at that trial, with plenty of spirit, too (and a cigarette)," Harry Raymond, bombing victim and vice investigator said on April 12, 1938, as Earle Kynette and two aides of the police "spy squad" went to trial charged with bombing Raymond. Raymond is shown in California Hospital. He had to have several operations. Harry died April 1, 1957. He was born in Kansas June 13, 1881.
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