Detectives walking onto a ship to capture killer Phil Alguin, Freeport, Texas, 1923

Item Overview

Title: Detectives walking onto a ship to capture killer Phil Alguin, Freeport, Texas, 1923
Date Created: February 9, 1923
Date: 1923-02-09
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Notes

Description: Phil (Little Phil) Alguin shot and killed police detective John J. Fitzgerald in June, 1921, then fled to Mexico, prompting an extended manhunt. He was captured in Freeport, Texas in 1923 and imprisoned at San Quentin for life.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Alguin, Phil. (Capture) Murder case.
Handwritten on negative: #10

Physical Description

Extent: 1 photograph
Dimensions: 10 x 12.5 cm.
Medium: b&w glass negative

Keywords

Genre: news photographs
glass plate negatives
Names: Alguin, Phil, b. 1895
Location: Freeport (Tex.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Police--Texas--Freeport
Detectives--Texas--Freeport

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Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3690_G047
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0002ncb5
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