Charles Griffen combs through telegraphic bets for an investigation, Los Angeles, 1936

Item Overview

Title

Charles Griffen combs through telegraphic bets for an investigation, Los Angeles, 1936

Date Created

March 29, 1936

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

This photograph appears with the article, “TRACK LINK IN TIPSTER RAID FOUND: Women Quizzed by Officials ‘Sucker’ Card Index Hints Bets Wired to Tanforan Source of List,” Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 1936: 1.
Photograph of Charles Griffen looking through drawers filled with cards for an investigation. The cards are indexed with the names of those who placed telegraphic bets on races. Griffen is standing in the photograph and wears a suit and tie. The open drawers sit on a desk, and in the background there is a closed door.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: Charles Griffen 3/28/36.
Text from negative sleeve: 4577—Mrs Vera Fields, Mrs Willa Mae Newman, Patricia Douglas, Charles Griffen w/ “sucker lists”, asst chief of Buron Fitt’s DA investigation bureau, Race Track Story 3/28/36. [Stamped:] APR 1 1936.
Text from newspaper caption: Charles Griffen, District Attorney’s investigator, is shown with part of the files of 10,000 names in the so-called sucker lists found in a raid on an asserted race track tipsters’ office. The set-up is being investigated by both Federal and county authorities.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Evidence (law)
Detectives--California--Los Angeles
Investigation--California--Los Angeles

Names

Griffin, Charles J., 1891-1972

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image