Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-18
LESLIE HARRIS IS
welded, IS BELIEF
Post Cards Announce He Win
Try Matrimony with San
Pedro Teacher
YOUTH is ON PROBATION
Goes East to Start Life Over and
May Have a HeIpmeet in
His New Career

Another venture in matrimony is be-
lieved to be the latest event of public
interest in the life of H. Leslie Harris,
who is now on probation following his
plea of guilty to a charge of having
robbed q safe in the store of Don H.
Mcfarland 217 West Fourth street,
last fall. The bride, If the wedding
has occurred, is Miss Dora Tustin, for
two years a school teacher at San
Pedro. Friends at San Pedro have re-
ceiyed post cards announcing the ap-
preaching marriage.
The late Lamar A. Harris and H.
Leslie Harris were brothers. When
the former committed suicide in Chi
cago, after robbing a bank and just as
he was about to be captured, hundreds
of people in Los Angeles who knew
the young man were shocked, Only a
short time after this tragic occur
renee H. Leslie Harris was caught
after robbing the safe in the McFar-
land store. Recently he failed in an
effort to secure custody of his daughter
Corinne.
Sunday. December 10, was the date
of the robbery of the Mcfarland store.
Mcfarland happened to be near the
store about noon of that day and saw
Harris enter. When Harris came out
Mcfarland followed him into the. O..
T. johnson building, where Harris was
arrested. Harris had looted the safe
and when cornered in the Johnson
building attempted to hide the cur
rency stolen from the safe in GUS
pidors and on window lodges. At first
he protested innocence later said he
had a right to take the money through
having been a stockholder in the store,
and finally pleaded guilty before
Judge Willis and was placed on pro-
baton for five years. Harris obtained
Judge Willis permission to leave the
state and on May 16 he departed for
Chicago, where, he said, he could get
work.
Friends of Miss Dora Tustin claim
that she left for her mothers home at
Phoenixville, near Philadelphia, at the
same time.
ROMANCE is INVOLVED
Miss Tustin and Harris became ac-
ouainted in this city two years ago.
While both We're employed in the same
office. Miss Tustin then secured a
position asateacher in one of the San
Pedro schools. Friends in San Pedro
claim that the couple would have been
welded there had not the mother of
Miss Tustin requested that the cere-
mony be deferred until she could see
her prospective son-in-law. The daugh-
why Harris and Miss Tustin started
for Phoenixville.
Several San Pedro residents claim to
have received postals from Miss Tus-
tin which were mailed at Mt. Shasta,
she having stopped there on her way
to her mothers home.
Mrs. w. A. Harris, mother of Har-
ris, lives at 929 West Ninth street.
When asked about her sons marriage
last evening she said:
IT don't believe the public is inter-
ested in my boy and won't make any
statement. He has confided all his Sc
crets to me now, and as he has been
in the public eye long enough, have
nothing to say"
Harris is the son Of the late VIII A.
Harris, who was a prominent attor-
ney here. His brother, Lamar A. Har-
ris. had attained the reputation of be-
ing a brilliant young attorney, and
many predicted that he would follow
in the footsteps Of his father. but the
predictions went wrong. His suicide
followed the robbery of d. NJ. Erskine' s
bank at Highland Park, ILL.,, suburb
of Chicago. He was nursued after
the robbery, and when hemmed in on
all sides he sent bullet crashing into
his brain.
About two months ago H. Leslie
Harris failed in an attempt to obtain
q, modification of a decree by which
the custody of his 5-year-old daughter
Corrine was given to his divorced
wife, whose maiden name was Ger
trude n. Ross. The latter secured a
divorce from Harris and is now study
ing music abroad.