Deputy Sheriff Edward Graeb with 12-year-old Johnny Eszes, injured from being whipped, El Monte, 1935

Title: Deputy Sheriff Edward Graeb with 12-year-old Johnny Eszes, injured from being whipped, El Monte, 1935
Date Created: July 1935
Date: 1935-07
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Police are in pursuit of John Eszes for beating his 12-year-old son Johnny with a homemade cat-o'-nine-tails.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Man Sought in Whipping," Los Angeles Times, 12 July 1935: A1.
Johnny leans on his knees with his bare back exposed to the camera, showing scars from the whipping. Deputy Sheriff Graeb stands beside Johnny holding up the cat-o'-nine-tails that was used in the abuse.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 1134 - Edw. W. Graeb (Dep. Sheriff) John Eszes-12 x x Boy Whipped by Father 7/17/35 [stamped:] Jul 17 1935
Handwritten on negative: 13- Edw. W. Graeb - John Eszes - 12 7/11/35

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Eszes, John Paul, 1923-1984
Graeb, Edward William, b. circa 1885
Location: El Monte (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Children--California--El Monte
Police--California--El Monte
Whips
Wounds & injuries--California--El Monte

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_7463
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002df56d
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