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County Seek Missing Papers On Jim Morrison Arrest
The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinet
July 1991
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 obsenity 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 acution house in June.
"I'm pretty sure the documents were stolen from our files,: said Dade 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 the case. Miami and Metro-Dade police do not have any authority in New York.
The bond sheet stems from Morrison's arrest on suspicion of indecent exposure during a concert at Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami's Coconut Grove section. If it is authentic, it had to come from the Dade case files and Adler wants it back.
After hearing of the auction, court officials looked in the Morrison file and discovered the disappearane of 42 other items, including photographs, transcripts and other court filings.
A spokesman for Sotheby's in New York could not be reached for comment.
Ader says he has no idea who may have pilftered the documents from the file, now lept in the county's archives.
END.
Entertainment Weekly Magazine
Posted Aug 30, 1991 | Published in issue #81 Aug 30, 1991
THE HARD (ROCK) SELL
By Bob Cannon
An unopened Beatles' Yesterday and Today album brought in $301 at a Philadelphia Beatles convention in 1976. The same album today is listed in collectors' guides at $4,500. Just why are rock artifacts such a booming business? ''Our strategy of collecting made the market happen,'' claims Stephen Routhier, vice president of memorabilia and display for the Hard Rock Cafe, the outfit that must share in the responsibility for sending prices of rock relics sky-high. Bolstered by a $2 million spending frenzy in 1986 and '87, the Hard Rock has gathered more than 10,000 rock artifacts for display at its 22 clubs. Routhier says, ''We were getting (a grand majority of really good stuff) at considerably less than what it costs now.'' And what might that price be? Jimi Hendrix's platinum album award for Are You Experienced? sold for $2,600 at a Sotheby's New York auction in June. That same day a 1970 postcard from John Lennon to his son Julian brought a whopping $3,250. Boy George's dreadlocks reside at the Hard Rock in Singapore. Price in 1987: $600. Here are some more jaw-dropping prices from recent Sotheby's auctions: * Grateful Dead autographed drum head (list price $35): $300 * Elvis Presley autographed 40-inch-by-40-inch stage scarf: $800 * Madonna's signed bustier: $9,900 * Jim Morrison's 1969 bail bond from Dade County, Fla.: $14,000
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The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinet
July 1991
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 obsenity 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 acution house in June.
"I'm pretty sure the documents were stolen from our files,: said Dade 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 the case. Miami and Metro-Dade police do not have any authority in New York.
The bond sheet stems from Morrison's arrest on suspicion of indecent exposure during a concert at Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami's Coconut Grove section. If it is authentic, it had to come from the Dade case files and Adler wants it back.
After hearing of the auction, court officials looked in the Morrison file and discovered the disappearane of 42 other items, including photographs, transcripts and other court filings.
A spokesman for Sotheby's in New York could not be reached for comment.
Ader says he has no idea who may have pilftered the documents from the file, now lept in the county's archives.
END.
Entertainment Weekly Magazine
Posted Aug 30, 1991 | Published in issue #81 Aug 30, 1991
THE HARD (ROCK) SELL
By Bob Cannon
An unopened Beatles' Yesterday and Today album brought in $301 at a Philadelphia Beatles convention in 1976. The same album today is listed in collectors' guides at $4,500. Just why are rock artifacts such a booming business? ''Our strategy of collecting made the market happen,'' claims Stephen Routhier, vice president of memorabilia and display for the Hard Rock Cafe, the outfit that must share in the responsibility for sending prices of rock relics sky-high. Bolstered by a $2 million spending frenzy in 1986 and '87, the Hard Rock has gathered more than 10,000 rock artifacts for display at its 22 clubs. Routhier says, ''We were getting (a grand majority of really good stuff) at considerably less than what it costs now.'' And what might that price be? Jimi Hendrix's platinum album award for Are You Experienced? sold for $2,600 at a Sotheby's New York auction in June. That same day a 1970 postcard from John Lennon to his son Julian brought a whopping $3,250. Boy George's dreadlocks reside at the Hard Rock in Singapore. Price in 1987: $600. Here are some more jaw-dropping prices from recent Sotheby's auctions: * Grateful Dead autographed drum head (list price $35): $300 * Elvis Presley autographed 40-inch-by-40-inch stage scarf: $800 * Madonna's signed bustier: $9,900 * Jim Morrison's 1969 bail bond from Dade County, Fla.: $14,000
www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,315313,00.html