George and Albert Acree arrested for the kidnapping of James C. Gelvin, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: George and Albert Acree arrested for the kidnapping of James C. Gelvin, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: February 18, 1936
Date: 1936-02-18
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Pair Identified as Abductors and Hold-up Men," Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb 1936: A3.
George and Albert sit in two separate chairs, each of them handcuffed by one wrist to the arm of their respective chairs. A group of men stand behind them, their faces cut off by the top of the frame.
James C. Gelvin of Glendale testified to being robbed and left tied to a post by brothers George and Albert Acree, who are to answer to charges of kidnapping and nine robbery counts. The two face life sentences on the kidnapping charge alone.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 3577 - Albert Acree George Acree Street Car Bandits 2 - 8 - 36 Box 10 [stamped:] Feb 11 1936
Handwritten on negative: L 2 R Albert Acree George Acree 2/8/36

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Acree, Albert Fitzhugh, 1916-1978
Acree, George Carnes, 1914-2006
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Brothers--American--California--Los Angeles
Crimes--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hmq32
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