Bukowski married a lawbreaking troublemaker

[mjp]

 

[LickTheStar]

Wow she was from Cambridge huh? Well a minor connection between Bukowski and my home state.

I guess I never realized hitchhiking was actually a crime either... Then again, I'm young and most people have stopped hitchhiking in America because of serial killers...

 

[Bukfan]

Nice find, mjp! So she was found guilty of hitchhiking and appealed. I wonder what happened at the appeal. The drug charge seems to have been dismissed.
I never knew hitchhiking was a crime. Perhaps it's because they hitchhiked at a turnpike?
$510 in bail for each of them, and then it ends with a $10 fine, which was appealed!

 

[number6horse]

In those days, wasn't marijuana considered a "narcotic" ?

 

[Bukfan]

Legally it still is, I'm afraid...

 

[penelope5683]

hhhhhhhhmmmm a narcotic huh- never thought about it like that

 

[number6horse]

In strictly legal terms, it might still be over here too. But what I was getting at was how, at that time, a typical newspaper report didn't bother to distinguish between types of illegal drugs (as I'm sure the police report furnished to the crime reporter didn't either).
Which leads me to ask a rather nosy question: Was Linda into anything harder than pot and booze in her life ? Sorry if I'm out of line here, it just piqued my curiosity...

 

[james]

where does it say marijuana?

 

[number6horse]

It does not - it just says "narcotic", which made me wonder what type of narcotic.

 

[penelope5683]

when green is mentioned everyone gets off track :)
it is a big fine so it could be something more substantial.

 

[mjp]

It was 1969. It could have been pretty much anything you can imagine.

 

[Ponder]

Geez, Michael, where the hell did you find this hollywood stuff?

 

[mjp]

I kind of accidentally found it on an ancestry site when I was looking for something else.