Alfred Cohn moved to Cleveland, where he got a newspaper job. After
getting married, he moved to Galveston, Texas, to run a newspaper. He
then moved to Arizona, where he served as secretary to the
constitutional convention of Arizona when it was admitted as a state in
1912.
Eventually, he moved to Hollywood and began writing scripts, completing
a total of over 100 during his lifetime. He then went on to become head
collector for the Port of Los Angeles, and became Commissioner of
Police. He also wrote several books, some garnering best-selling
labels.
His wife Grace (whom he married in Cleveland) and he had three
children: Dorothy, Jackson, and Adrienne. Grace died in the 1940s from
dropsy, and he from a heart condition in the early 1950s.
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Alfred worked a number of different jobs, newspaper reporter, newspaper editor, magazine editor, publicist, customs collections and was at one time, head of the Los Angeles Police Department.