J. K. Fronk, ex-parole officer, arrested for bad checks, Los Angeles, 1926

Item Overview

Title

J. K. Fronk, ex-parole officer, arrested for bad checks, Los Angeles, 1926

Date Created

[circa Feb 16, 1926]

Date

1926-02-16

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

This photograph appears in "Fronk Bankers to Tell Story," Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb 1926: 9.
J. K. Fronk, parole officer, sits in a wooden chair on a raised wooden platform, posing for a photograph in a three piece suit. He has his feet splayed in front of him, leaning forward slightly, resting his left hand on his knee and his right arm on his thigh. He holds a paper in his right hand. He is staring forwards from his position, unsmiling. A calendar from presumably 1926 hangs on the wall behind him.
J. K. Fronk, parole officer, was arrested, along with Orison R. Ruddy, bookkeeper, and L. A. Landon, bank manager, for writing bad checks and swindling over $300,000 from 8 banks. He was convicted and sentenced to 10 years, of which he served 4 1/2 years before being paroled in 1931. He then violated his parole and disappeared, and was found dead in Omaha, Nebraska in 1932.

Caption

Text accompanying photograph in newspaper: His Wizardry Under Scrutiny, J. K. Fronk
Handwritten on negative sleeve: Fronk, J. H., parole officer
Handwritten on negative: J. K. Fronk

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

Portrait photographs
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Fronk, J. K. (John K.), 1888-1932

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Parole officers--California--Los Angeles
Fraud--California--Los Angeles
Criminals--California--Los Angeles