Showing posts with label White Point. Show all posts
Showing posts with label White Point. Show all posts

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Stone Age Murder at White Point?

From the Evening News, April 10, 1919:

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LOS ANGELES, April 10 -- Evidence of a mysterious and cowardly murder of an unidentified man has been unearthed by curators at the Exposition Park museum.

While studying a skeleton brought to them they found death had been caused by an arrow embedded in the spinal column.

"This is a particularly cowardly case," declared Edward James, detective. "This man was shot in the back. But I see no clew [sic] leading to the guilty party nor can I determine the motive."

The skelton, it might be added, was that of a cliff dweller, dug from beneath a rock 100 feet underground at White Point, near San Pedro. He was murdered during the stone age.

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*above image shows the White Point area (near San Pedro), c. 1930

**To read more about  Stone Age Spear and Arrow Points of the Southwestern United States, click here.