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Hero or Huckster: Harry Coyne the Dynamite Fiend
On the night of February 6 1896, an explosion rocked the slumbering West Adams neighborhood. “Dynamite fiends” had apparently attempted to blow up the house of Thomas Douglas Stimson at 2421 Figueroa (figure 1). Neighbors George and Frank Sabichi ran to help with their guns drawn. They fired at a shadowy fleeing figure, but the […]