Attorney Arthur Verge with clients Frank Sebastian and Walter Pollock in court, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Attorney Arthur Verge with clients Frank Sebastian and Walter Pollock in court, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: July 19, 1935
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Photograph of attorney Arthur Verge (at center) with Frank Sebastian, night club operator, and Walter Pollock, his floor manager, standing in courtroom filled with spectators. Sebastian and Pollock were previously cited for contempt when they refused to testify during a special Senate committee investigating administration of the Liquor Control Act in Los Angeles County. The charges were dismissed.
Related to the article, "Night Club Men Freed: Committee Has No Authority to Cite Witnesses for Contempt, Says Court," Los Angeles Times, 20 Jul. 1935:1.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 1057. L to R - Frank Sebastian, Arthur Verge, Walter Pollock. Liquor hearing. Aug 8-1935
Handwritten on negative: Frank Sebastian, Arthur Verge, Walter Pollock. 7-19-35.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Subjects: Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Names: Pollock, Walter Hough, 1892-1955
Sebastian, Frank, b. 1896 or 97
Verge, Arthur C., 1891-1945
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_10245
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hb5s3
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Rights Country: US
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