Tinsletown loses two

Earl "Sprout" Withrow and Victor Harmon were bootlegging partners in Los Angeles. In addition to a handful of arrests for liquor, the former had been involved in a shooting with San Francisco rum runners in 1929 but was exonerated, and the latter, who also had some arrests for alcohol, did time in San Quentin for grand theft auto,

On this date in 1933 both men were found dead.They had been beaten and strangled to death someplace and their corpses driven to a secluded dirt road and dumped outside Downey, California. Rival bootlegger Frank Hugo was picked up for the murders after it was learned he had a meeting with Withrow and Harmon the afternoon before their disappearance.

Earl "Sprout" Withrow

Victor Harmon