Chief liquor control officer Merle Templeton with his attorney Richard H. Sampson at the liquor license bribe trial, Oct 1939 - May 1940

Title: Chief liquor control officer Merle Templeton with his attorney Richard H. Sampson at the liquor license bribe trial, Oct 1939 - May 1940
Date Created: between October 24, 1939 and May 29, 1940
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Chief liquor control officer Merle Templeton (right) and his attorney, Richard H. Sampson at the liquor license bribe trial. Templeton is accused of involvement in a liquor license bribe scandal in which he allegedly conspired with at least six others to extort money from liquor retailers under threat of causing them to lose their liquor license
Caption: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Bonelli, William G.; Templeton, Merle; Rose, A. Brigham; Levine, Ed; Hughes, Hal; Mackay, Donald; Cook, Wm. J.; Huntsman, Ray
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Richard H. SampsonMerle Templeton

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Subjects: Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Crime
Legal
Business
Bribery--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Criminals--California--Los Angeles
Names: Templeton, Merle
Sampson, Richard H.
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1387_22662-04
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0025gvgr
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