Mrs. Eleanor Quinn discovered smuggled guns buried in her backyard, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: Mrs. Eleanor Quinn discovered smuggled guns buried in her backyard, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: March 13, 1936
Date: 1936-03-13
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: English
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Mrs. Quinn deliverd a testimony against former convict and tenant of her home at 9122 South Hoover Street Edward Freeman, who frequently threatened her and is said to be the owner of the illegal firearms, planning to smuggle them to inmates of Folsom State Prison.
Photograph appears with the article, "Ex-Convict Tied to Guns," Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar 1936: 7.
Behind the witness stand Mrs. Quinn extracts the guns from the container that was found in her backyard.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Eleanor Quinn displaying guns said to have been found buried in her back yard and which she said were to be sold to convicts for a Folsom Prison break.
Handwritten on negative: Mrs Eleanor Quinn
Text from negative sleeve: 4449 - Mrs. Eleanor Quinn (found in her backyard) Smuggled Guns - [stamped:] Mar 25 1936

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Quinn, Eleanor
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Illegal arms transfers
Firearms
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_13631
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hnvr8
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