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Sun Sentinel
December 7 1991
Luisa Yanez - Miami Bureau
Rock Star Court File Pilfered Official: Data Gone On Late Doors Singer
MIAMI -- A Dade County Circuit Court administrator has asked for a police investigation into the disappearance of 43 documents from the court file detailing the 1969 obscenity arrest of the late rock star Jim Morrison.
The investigation was sparked when the original bail bond sheet signed 22 years ago in Miami by The Doors` lead singer, ``James Douglas Morrison,`` sold for $15,950 at a Sotheby`s New York auction house in June.
``I`m pretty sure the documents were stolen from our files,`` said Clerk of the Courts Marshall Ader, who reported the theft to Miami and Metro-Dade police last month.
Ader said he wants the FBI to investigate. Local police do not have any authority in New York.
The bond sheet stems for Morrison`s arrest for indecent exposure during a concert at Dinner Key Auditorium in Coconut Grove. If it is authentic, it had to come from the Dade case file and Ader wants it back.
After hearing of the auction, court officials looked in the Morrison file and discovered the disappearance of 42 other items, including photographs, transcripts and other court filings.
Those documents may have found a marketplace because of the growing popularity of collecting rock memorabilia, court officials say.
A spokesman for Sotheby`s could not be reached for comment.
Ader says he has no idea who may have pilfered the documents from the file, now kept in the county`s archives. He also is unsure when the theft took place.
Morrison`s rise to fame was depicted this year in Oliver Stone`s film, The Doors. The film featured a re-creation of his boozy Coconut Grove performance. The singer, who died in 1971 at age 27 in Paris, was convicted during a well-publicized obscenity trial that contributed to the end of the band.
In the late `60s, the California-based band had a string of hits including Light My Fire; Hello, I Love You; and Riders on the Storm.
articles.sun-sentinel.com/1991-12....court-officials
December 7 1991
Luisa Yanez - Miami Bureau
Rock Star Court File Pilfered Official: Data Gone On Late Doors Singer
MIAMI -- A Dade County Circuit Court administrator has asked for a police investigation into the disappearance of 43 documents from the court file detailing the 1969 obscenity arrest of the late rock star Jim Morrison.
The investigation was sparked when the original bail bond sheet signed 22 years ago in Miami by The Doors` lead singer, ``James Douglas Morrison,`` sold for $15,950 at a Sotheby`s New York auction house in June.
``I`m pretty sure the documents were stolen from our files,`` said Clerk of the Courts Marshall Ader, who reported the theft to Miami and Metro-Dade police last month.
Ader said he wants the FBI to investigate. Local police do not have any authority in New York.
The bond sheet stems for Morrison`s arrest for indecent exposure during a concert at Dinner Key Auditorium in Coconut Grove. If it is authentic, it had to come from the Dade case file and Ader wants it back.
After hearing of the auction, court officials looked in the Morrison file and discovered the disappearance of 42 other items, including photographs, transcripts and other court filings.
Those documents may have found a marketplace because of the growing popularity of collecting rock memorabilia, court officials say.
A spokesman for Sotheby`s could not be reached for comment.
Ader says he has no idea who may have pilfered the documents from the file, now kept in the county`s archives. He also is unsure when the theft took place.
Morrison`s rise to fame was depicted this year in Oliver Stone`s film, The Doors. The film featured a re-creation of his boozy Coconut Grove performance. The singer, who died in 1971 at age 27 in Paris, was convicted during a well-publicized obscenity trial that contributed to the end of the band.
In the late `60s, the California-based band had a string of hits including Light My Fire; Hello, I Love You; and Riders on the Storm.
articles.sun-sentinel.com/1991-12....court-officials