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  • Tags: Crime and Criminals
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Paul Woodside lived on the side of a cliff at Seacliff in 1925 (note the corn planted at the base of the cliff). He is remembered for a shoot-out with Sheriff Howard Trafton and Undersheriff Richard Rountree. All three men died after the struggle…

Date: 1925
Type: PHOTO

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On August 17, 1977, Thomas Benton Wilson was arrested for hijacking a public bus in Santa Cruz and later holding 70 persons hostage at the Baha'i School in Bonny Doon.

Date: 1977-08-17
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel Aug. 18, 1977, pages 1,3,4 and 12.
Type: ARTICLE

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Two men, Francisco Arias and Jose Chamales, hanged at the Water Street Bridge.

Date: 1877
Type: PHOTO

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Famed Black Panther leader Huey Newton was arrested in Santa Cruz County on May 11, 1978. He was charged with attempted murder after gun shots were fired during an argument at the Mediterranean Bar in Seacliff Beach. He was later acquitted on July…

Date: 1978
Type: PHOTO

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The stage robber Dick Fellows, a.k.a. G. Brett Lytle.

Date: Undated
Type: PHOTO

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Thomas B. Poole, a Pajaro resident, was active as a Confederate guerrilla in California during the Civil War. He was hanged for murder on September 29, 1865.

Date: Undated
Type: PHOTO

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Tiburcio Vasquez, cousin of Faustino Lorenzana.

Date: Undated
Type: PHOTO

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Anthony Azoff's San Quentin "mug shot." Azoff was convicted of the attempted robbery of the Wells-Fargo Express Office in Boulder Creek, and the subsequent killing of Southern Pacific Detective Len Harris in 1894.

Date: 1894
Type: PHOTO

https://fishbox.santacruzpl.org/media/pdf/local_history_articles/AR-084.pdf

Date: Undated
Type: ARTICLE

AR-004.pdf

Date: 1978
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel, 5/11/78 and 7/14/78
Type: ARTICLE

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