Henry H. Lyon

Candidate Biography:

Henry Herbert Lyon
Born: April 17, 1879 in Los Angeles, CA
Married: Sarah A. McGinley (m. 1899)
Family: Brother of Charles Lyon
Killed (in office): November 1, 1917 in  Los Angeles, CA

1906-1910: Member, Los Angeles City Council
Previous: Assistant Deputy Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics 

• MURDERED: Lyon was shot twice on October 9, 1917 and died a few weeks later.
• Marie Pinzon Edwards was held responsible for the death of Lyon at a Coroner's Jury in November 1917 and was charged with first degree murder. During her trial (in mid-February), Edwards claimed that she had shot Lyon because he "visited her, caused her to leave her husband, engineered her entrance into an immoral life and took the profits of that life." She praised "his love making, promises to marry her, his ability to "kiss away" her despondent moods and their financial arrangement", that "Lyon used heroin and that he taught her to use it" and that he had made an "insistent demand that she enter a Japanese house of ill-repute to make more money." On February 23, 1918, the jury split 6-6 on Edwards' guilt. On February 26th, a retrial was set for April 15th. On April 11th, 1918 the murder charge against Edwards was dismissed. In June 1920, Edwards was arrested with a taxi driver named Jack Conway for being disorderly. In 1921, she again faced legal trouble "for violating the state poison law."

Source: California Blue Book (1911), (1913-15)
Source: "New Trial Is Set For Marie Edwards" San Francisco Call, Volume 103, Number 47, 26 February 1918
Source: "LYON RECEIVED GIRL'S EARNINGS WITNESSES SAY" San Francisco Call, Volume 103, Number 43, 21 February 1918 [https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19180221.2.34&srpos=41&e=-------en--20--41--txt-txIN-"Marie+Pinzon+Edwards"-------
Source: "MARIE EDWARDS HELD FOR SEN. LYON’S DEATH" Enterprise (Riverside), Volume LIII, Number 154, 4 November 1917 [https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MPE19171104.2.79&srpos=1&e=------191-en--20--1--txt-txIN--------]
Source: https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SJMN19180224.2.111&srpos=1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22Marie+Pinzon+Edwards%22-------
Source: "JURY DISAGREES IN LYON MURDER CASE" San Jose Mercury-news, Volume XCIV, Number 55, 24 February 1918 [https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SJMN19180224.2.111&srpos=1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22Marie+Pinzon+Edwards%22-------]
Source: "HOLD MARIE EDWARDS" Los Angeles Herald, Volume XLVI, Number 259, 30 August 1921 [https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19210830.2.891&srpos=9&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-"Marie+Pinzon+Edwards"-------
Source: "ME EDWARDS NOT TO BE TRIED FOR SHOOTING" Calexico Chronicle, Volume XIV, Number 205, 11 April 1918 [https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=CC19180411.2.15&srpos=10&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-"Marie+Pinzon+Edwards"-------