Neftal Pratt is questioned by Lieutenant John G. Landers, Los Angeles, 1939

Item Overview

Title

Neftal Pratt is questioned by Lieutenant John G. Landers, Los Angeles, 1939

Photographer

Terrell, Maurice

Date Created

January 3, 1939

Date

1939-01-03

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

An unknown bandit held up President of the Gold Star Mothers of LA Elizabeth Harrison on her way to her car after she finished her lunch at Scully's Café, where he had been watching her. He had left a ten cent tip for his waitress, Neftal Pratt.
Photograph appears with the article, "Café Gunman Dines and Robs," Los Angeles Times, 04 Jan 1939: 12.
Detective Lieutenant Landers takes notes on a pad while looking at Neftal Pratt, wearing her waitressing uniform and balancing a glass of water in one hand.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 15336 - Det. Lieut. J.G. Landers Neftal Pratt (waitress) Restaurant Holdup. Scully's café robbery [stamped:] Jan 18 1939
Text from newspaper caption: Neftal Pratt, waitress at Crenshaw Ave. café, explains to Officer J. G. Landers the good service she rendered bandit who later took the establishment's cash.
Handwritten on negative: DT. Lieut. J G Sanders Neftal Pratt

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Landers, John G., b. 1898 or 99-1960
Pratt, Neftal

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Police--California--Los Angeles
Waitresses--California--Los Angeles
Robberies--California--Los Angeles