August 14, 2025 and eighty years ago on this day in 1945, Edgar Rice Burroughs celebrated the victory over Japan with his son, Hulbert, and bride-to-be, Marion Thrasher. Burroughs was arrested after a parking lot altercation. Nothing makes a celebration any better than police intervention. The incident started when another driver took a parking spot that Ed was waiting for.
Information about the incident is located at:
Irwin Porges indicated Burroughs wrote of the actual incident in his diary under Aug. 17. Without the entire diary page, it's hard to tell what day he was referring to, but maybe he was just then getting around to writing about the battle of the parking lot and his arrest.
The drabble for today, “I Saw It First,” inspired by that incident, is excerpted from page 648 of Porges’ biography of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
'About 10:30 two policemen came in a police car and arrested me. They took me to the police station. I was booked and posted $25.00 bail.'
In court the next day, Burroughs pleaded not guilty to the charges the man had preferred against him, and the trial was set for the twenty-second. ‘It was very humiliating,' Ed wrote. At the scheduled trial Ed was advised by the prosecuting attorney and bailiff to 'walk out' and forfeit his bail, since a group of reporters was waiting and adverse publicity would undoubtedly result. Ed took this advice and the matter was dropped.
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