Scene of shootout between police and double murderer George Farley, Los Angeles, 1938

Item Overview

Title

Scene of shootout between police and double murderer George Farley, Los Angeles, 1938

Date Created

February 17, 1938

Date

1938-02-17

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Los Angeles police officers and detectives in shootout with murderer George Farley in his Los Angeles Home. In an attempt so serve Farley eviction papers, T.D. Crittenden and his aide W. L. Romer were shot by Farley. The bodies of Crittenden and Romer are depicted in the distance. Tear gas can be seen billowing from the home and Detective Lieutenant Robert Underwood can be seen in the far right behind a car with his rifle drawn.
This photograph appears with the article "Pitched Battle Rages Around Barricaded Home of Killer of Two Officers," Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 1938: pg. 12.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Process Servers Killing. George Farley Eviction Case. April 38.
Text from newspaper caption: General view of battle scene at height of siege before police bullets wounded slayer and officers rushed cottage to capture gunman.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Keywords

Genre

black-and-white photographs
news photographs

Names

Underwood, Robert
Romer, W.L.
Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Dept.
Crittenden, T.D.
Farley, George

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.016621088754900

Latitude

-118.24157741619300

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Police shootings--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles
Detectives--California--Los Angeles