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Bruce Wilson
Yes, I do Jo Ann. His name was Bob (and, I don't think maliciously, was called "Bob The Blnd Man"). I posted an ad for his stand on here somewhere. I'll look for it. It was on the west side of Third Avenue between Bill's Drive-In and Peters Feeds Store.
He could distinguish the denominations of bills by touch.
I've wondered before about the name of his dog.
Update sadly:
Robert Eugene (Blind Bob) Anderson 40
Robert "Blind Bob" Anderson of Chula Vista was apparently murdered in the summer of 1968.
Anderson, long-time; operator with his mother, Mary, of Bob's News Stand on 3rd - Ave., was brutally murdered at their home at, 237 Landis . Ave.- MRS. ANDERSON found Anderson's body on the floor in a pool of blood at 7 p.m.,
A Mr. Spross was developed as a suspect through a process of elimination among some eight or 10 people associated with the Andersons and was prosecuted by D.A. Don Keller, my father's one time boss in the District Attorney's office and one who was on hand at Rep. Bob Wilson's house on my first night out of the hospital after being born. My father was in Riverside or Bakersfield getting sworn into the California Bar.
Mr. Spross was found guilty July 16, 1969.
Seems there's always a subplot in CV crime stories (right Leon?)
The jury apparently chose not to believe Spross story of Mexicans trying to get back 125,000 that he claimed had been entrusted to Blind Bob. THE MONEY, Spross said, was to be used to buy stolen cigarettes that Spross delivered to the blind man. The accused man said directly from the stand that Mrs. Anderson knew nothing of the transactions of which there existed no evidence except Spross's word that involved Anderson. . In the attempt to get the money back, Spross said, he was attacked three times by agents of "the man," as someone was referred to and told to stop fooling around. However, as Deputy District Attorney Robert Abel pointed out, it was some 19 months from the time that Spross stopped stealing cigarettes until the first alleged attack.
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