Santa Cruz County History - Crime & Public Safety

• Anthony Azoff and the Murder of Detective Len Harris, by Phil Reader
  "Being an account of the attempted robbery of the Wells-Fargo Express Office in Boulder Creek, ..."
  
• A Brief History of the Pajaro Property Protective Society: Vigilantism in the Pajaro Valley During 19th Century, by Phil Reader
  ""No arrests: for nobody cares." "Horse Stealing - Hardly a night passes in Pajaro that ..."
  
• Bus Hijacking
  "On August 17, 1977, Thomas Benton Wilson was arrested for hijacking a public bus in ..."
  
• "Charole"--The Life of Branciforte Bandido Faustino Lorenzana, by Phil Reader
  "In 1885 a reporter for the Santa Cruz Sentinel asked ex-sheriff Charlie Lincoln who was ..."
  
• Copperheads, Secesh Men, and Confederate Guerillas: Pro-Confederate Activities in Santa Cruz County during the Civil War, by Phil Reader
  "The secessionist movement and the civil war that followed divided not only the United states, ..."
  
• G. Brett Lytle, Professor of Languages, by Phil Reader
  "The comic opera bandit, Dick Fellows, holds a special place in the literature of California ..."
  
• Hanging on the Water Street Bridge: A Santa Cruz Lynching, by Geoffrey Dunn
  "By the time the sun rose on the morning of May 3, 1877, the two ..."
  
• Harlots and Whorehouses: Fallen Angels of Front Street, Part 1, by Phil Reader
  "Practitioners of the world's oldest profession have always been found on the streets of Santa ..."
  
• Harlots and Whorehouses: Lust in the Valley of El Pajaro, Part 1, by Phil Reader
  "The town of Watsonville sits nestled in a beautiful pastoral valley alongside the meandering Pajaro ..."
  
• History of Santa Cruz County Jails, by Craig R. Wilson
  "The first reference to a jail in Santa Cruz was on Mission Hill where Emmett ..."
  
• Huey Newton Arrested in Santa Cruz County
  "Famed Black Panther leader Huey Newton was arrested in Santa Cruz County on May 11, ..."
  
• More Than 100 Years of Service: A Brief History of the Santa Cruz Fire Department, by Jerry Ochoa
  "In the city of Santa Cruz (California) of the 1850's, the downtown started seeing a ..."
  
• The Pilot Hose Company (1896)
  "This organization has for fifteen years been a notable institution of Santa Cruz, and for ..."
  
• The Remarkable Good Order of Santa Cruz
  "There is an impression abroad in the East--a hazy, vague impression, it is true, but ..."
  
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• Serial Murders in Santa Cruz County, by Sharon Yamanaka
  "In 1973,with the discovery of four bodies in Henry Cowell State Park, then District Attorney ..."