Approximately 196 pages in a larger ledger book pasted with hundreds of newspaper clippings. Also a number of loose clippings laid in. Approximately 13½x8¾, original half leather and cloth.

A fascinating archive of crime related newspaper clippings from Chico, California in the 1920s. Manuscript index at front. Some examples of the headlines include: Man Frightens Child, Hurls Barber into Gutter, Fights Police before put in Jail; Explosion of Bomb is Fatal to Chico Girl; Truckloads of Booze seized in Junction Raids by Police; Youth Arrested at Hobo Camp; Curing Bad Boys by Making them Cops; Rock Thrower Still Active, Oranges used as Missiles; Youth Shot in Alleged “Hijacking”; $8,000 in Silks Stolen from Oser’s, Woman believed linked with Job; Two Cremated in Automobile Crash at Sandy Gulch; Bandit’s Automobile Riddled by Detective’s Bullets; Doomed Man Writes Poem to Mother; and much more.