Confidence man Joe "Spike" Alperson is taken to court, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Confidence man Joe "Spike" Alperson is taken to court, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: December 20, 1935
Date: 1935-12-20
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Similar photograph appears with the article, "Mystic in Bunko Net," Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec 1935: A1.
Joe "Spike" Alperson, Hollywood mystic known as Prince Araei Omwah, stood trial yesterday before Justice Holland in Beverly Hills on charges of disturbing the peace and threatening bodily harm to the Dr. U. L. Ghilini, exposer of fake psychics and clairvoyants. Alperson also was placed under technical arrest as a bunko suspect.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 4167 - Joe ^"Spike" Alperson. (aka Prince Araei Omwah) ("mystic" who swindled 3 women promising them instruction in mysticism) Bunco charge. 12-21-35 [stamped:] Dec 23 1935
Handwritten on negative: Joe Alperson 12-21-35-

Genre: news photographs
Portrait photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Alperson, Joe "Spike" (Prince Araei Omwah)
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Portrait photographs
Swindlers--California--Los Angeles
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hnb0n
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