Harpo Marx's Rundown, Renovated Neff in Rancho Mirage
This house is listed through our office in Rancho Mirage at Keller Williams Realty. Please click on the link below for more information. This is a fabulous opportunity for the right buyer. I’ve held an open house almost every weekend and people love this house! The history is amazing and it is such a thrill just to be in its presence.
Sounds like the good doctor was in trouble before:
(Oct. 10, 1936)
Hollywood Doctor Under Cross Fire at Operation Gang Trial
After testifying for two days and disclosing the inner workings of an asserted illegal operations ring which functioned between Seattle and San Diego, according to the prosecutors, Paul DeGaston, Hollywood physician, yesterday was submitted to the crossfire of questioning by defense attorneys in Superior Judge Crum’s court. DeGaston was called as one of the principal prosecution witnesses against four doctors, six business men and four women, charged with violating the California illegal-operations laws…
17. Doctor Paul DeGaston, 3701 Shannon Road, Olympia 0241, is fifty-four years of age, two hundred pounds, five feet ten and one-half inches, dark brown hair and brown eyes, and has been positively identified as the abortionist using the alias name of Doctor C. J. Morris, room 417, 3923 West Street, Los Angeles. He was using this alias and this address at the time of the murder. See the statement of Doctor Reginald Rankin, abortionist for whom suspect was employed, who along with Doctor J. Walther and son, owners of the Walthers Building at 3923 West 6th Street, Los Angeles definitely established that he was using the name of Morris before and at the time of the murder. “Doctor Morris, Room 417, 3923 West 6th Street†appeared in victim’s address book. This doctor was not investigated by the Los Angeles Police Department. He has been known to state that he studied surgery at the University of Paris, France; he is not now recognized as an M.D. in the United States, but has made a career out of abortions. He is now assisting Doctor Eric Wilson at 13835 Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks. See statements attached by Doctor Tony Zorb, M.D., and Doctor C. J. Morris, M.D. of Glendale. DeGaston was tried for murder in Los Angeles, October 15, 1934, and served a term beginning on September 28, 1940 in Washington State Prison for abortions. His wife Cleona is a school teacher at Vinedale school in Sun Valley, she is now getting a divorce from him. This suspect along with Doctor C. J. Morris was arrested by the agent for the California Board of Osteopathy and officers of the Los Angeles Police Department Homicide Division on Thursday, FEB 9, 1951. He has been charged with one count of abortion and will be questioned in regard to the murder.
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@guest #4: A million years ago I lived on the hill above Paul and could see his house from my balcony. One night I saw a car with a driver not familiar with driving in the hills and/or high sort of slam into a car parked on the street in front of it and drive away.
Oh, now I remember……Elizabeth Pursell used to live here.
(Jan. 27, 1961) OUT OF CONTROLCARCRASHESHILL ST. OFFICE
Vernon Troutman, 22, of 2037 S Harvard St., rode his convertible into the window of a vacant office of the Black Building at 357 S Hill St. Thursday when his car went out of control on the steep 4th St. incline between Hill and Grand Ave. He suffered minor injuries. Police officer Paul Scranton said the crosswalk at the bottom of the incline was thick with pedestrians when the car came skidding down. Mrs. Elizabeth Pursell, 23, of 3875 Edenhurst Ave., said Troutman’s car rolled directly toward her as she walked up the hill. "I screamed," she said. "He turned the wheel, swerved across the street and into the side of the building."