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Item #D100 /     $7,200.  [$6,120.]

Captain Harold B. Davis Collection, Oceanside Police Department

The Captain Harold B. Davis Oceanside Police Department

Captain Davis Kills Wife Slayer in Self Defense

The story as it was published in multiple newspapers for the entire news cycle

* Crime Scene Photos * Both Firearms*Shell Casings and Bullets*Coroner's Evidence

What A Story!

Headlines - 'COP KILLS OCEANSIDE WIFE SLAYER' - Friday April 22, 1950

Captain Harold Davis’ 38 Smith & Wesson service revolver and belt/holster and pouch which he wore in the shootout. - including a typed card, signed by Captain Davis stating:   "I carried this (S&W) 38 Cal revolver from 1943 until I retired from the police Dept. June 30th 1955.  Serial #967675.  Used in shoot out.  I went to work at the Del Mar race track July 1955 and carried this gun for 15 more years at the Fairs and Santa Anita as Security GD."  The revolver is in excellent condition and has been confirmed as a fully functional 1942-43 production model.

This window-box, made by Captain Davis, holds the murder weapon - a Colt.

"On Friday April 21st 1950 at 3/30 pm, I was saved from being shot by the misfiring of the two cartridges shown above, Four shots had been fired into the body of Mrs. Emilia Chavez (cases above) The bullet was taken from her body, the single 38 casing is from the one shot fired from my gun".  Signed Capt. H. B. Davis, Oceanside Police Department."

Captain Harold B. Davis Murder/Self-Defense Collection / Item #D100 / $7,200.  [$6,120.]

Collection Inventory Sheet:

• A Window Box Display, made by Captain Davis, containing the murder weapon, all 6 cartridges including the 2 that misfired, thereby saving Captain Davis’ life. With Explanations typed and set into the display by Captain Davis.

• Captain Harold Davis’ 38 Smith & Wesson service revolver and belt/holster and pouch that he wore in the shootout. - including a typed card signed by Captain Davis stating:   "I carried this (S&W) 38 Cal revolver from 1943 until I retired from the police Dept. June 30th 1955.  Serial #967675.  Used in shoot out.  I went to work at the Del Mar race track July 1955 and carried this gun for 15 more years at the fairs and Santa Anita as Security GD."  The revolver is in excellent condition and has been confirmed as a fully functional 1942-43 production model.

• Four 8X10 Black and White photographs of the crime scene (one including the murder victim) stamped on the back “SAN DIEGO COUNTY CORONER’S PHOTO”

• A type-written account of the Ballistic Examination done by the Criminology Laboratory listing the serial number and other identifying features of the murder weapon (a Colt), 2 shell cases, 2 cartridges, the chain of evidence relating to how he came to have them.  Example: “…and one bullet in a cellophane envelope marked 4/23/50.  Bullet taken from back of Amelia Chavez at Berry Mortuary by Dr. Toomey of the Coroner’s Office in San Diego.  It was given to me at 2:3-pm, 4/23/50 by Dr. Toomey.”  Written by Detective James G. Layne, DET. SGT. CRIMINOLOGY LABORATORY.  Noted that a copy was sent to Chief Norris G. Stensland, Detective Bureau, Sheriff’s Office.

• A type-written account of what happened written by Captain Davis describing a re-enactment of his shooting for the reporters of the San Diego Union.

• Scrap-booked original San Diego Union from April 22, 1950 (Oceanside Officer Kills Wife Slayer / Police Captain Shoots When Man’s Gun Fails To Fire)

• Scrap-booked original San Diego Daily Journal from April 22, 1950 (Cop Kills Oceanside Wife Slayer / Man Shot After Fatal Family Row)

• Scrap-booked original Los Angeles Times from April 22, 1950 (Wife Killed, Man Dies In Police Gun Duel.)

• Scrap-booked original Oceanside Daily Blade-Tribune from April 24, 1950 (Misfiring of Two Cartridges Saves Lives of Two Officers)

• Scrap-booked original The San Diego Union from April 23, 1950 (Inquest Slated in Deaths of Mexican Couple)

• Scrap-booked original Oceanside Daily Tribune from April 27, 1950 (Inquest into Chavez Deaths In Progress This Afternoon)

• Scrap-booked original Los Angeles Times article from April 29, 1950 (Officer Cleared In Fatal Shooting)

• Two original, signed Coroner’s Subpoena’s to Captain Davis to appear at the inquest, dated April 24^th, 1950.  The date of appearance demanded of Captain Davis was April27^th, 1950.

This collection is complete and unquestionably the ‘real deal’.  I am also in possession of a letter, hand written and signed by Ms. Delores Davis Sloan on Harold B. Davis’ official police letterhead attesting to the provenance of the Smith & Wesson, although there is no doubt about the revolver as it is detailed in the detective’s ballistics tests as well.

Captain Harold B. Davis Murder/Self-Defense Collection / Item #D100 /  $7,200.  [$6,120.]

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