State board of equalization member William G. Bonelli and chief liquor control officer Merle Templeton at the liquor license bribe trial, Oct. 1939 - May 1940

Item Overview

Title

State board of equalization member William G. Bonelli and chief liquor control officer Merle Templeton at the liquor license bribe trial, Oct. 1939 - May 1940

Date Created

between October 24, 1939 and May 29, 1940

Date

1939-10-24/1940-05-29

Publisher

Los Angeles Daily News

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Notes

Description

State board of equalization member William G. Bonelli (left) and Chief liquor control officer Merle Templeton talking to each other at the liquor license bribe trial. Both men are accused of involvement in a liquor license bribe scandal in which they allegedly conspired with at least five others to extort money from liquor retailers under threat of causing them to lose their liquor license

Caption

Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Wm G. BonelliMerle Templeton
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Bonelli, William G.; Templeton, Merle; Rose, A. Brigham; Levine, Ed; Hughes, Hal; Mackay, Donald; Cook, Wm. J.; Huntsman, Ray

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Bonelli, William G.
Templeton, Merle

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Government
Bribery--California--Los Angeles
Criminals--California--Los Angeles
Crime
Legal