Clark claimed Crawford invited him to a meeting to fix things with Spencer. Clark asserted that Crawford asked him to take Chief of Police Steckel to the beach on a certain night as part of a plan to frame the chief. Clark claimed he refused to participate in the scheme and called Crawford a "dirty lowdown skunk" to his face. Clark testified that Crawford then pulled a gun, a scuffle followed, and he shot Crawford in self-defense. The prosecution disputed Clark's account, pointing out that the police found no guns in Crawford's office and offering testimony that investigators found a cigar, not a gun, in Crawford's dead hand. The prosecutor alleged that Clark carried out the assassination as the agent of one of Crawford's former criminal accomplices. Eleven of the twelve jurors found Clark not guilty, and the one juror who voted "guilty" reportedly "found a bomb on his front lawn the next day." Clark was acquitted of all charges at the retrial. Family and Crossroads of the World Crawford was survived by his wife and two daughters, Joan Crawford and Eleanor Gloria Crawford. In 1936, Crawford's widow built the historic Crossroads of the World, a shopping center shaped like a ship, on the site where Crawford was shot. See also Carl Ingold Jacobson, Los Angeles, California, City Council member, 1925–33, whom Crawford was charged with framing References Further reading Richard Rayner, A Bright and Guilty Place, New York: Doubleday (2009) 1879 births 1931 deaths Prohibition-era gangsters Assassinated American people People murdered in California Deaths by firearm in California Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)