Officials and reporters swarm fugitive Phil ‘Little Phil’ Alguin as freighter docks, Freeport, Texas, 1923

Title: Officials and reporters swarm fugitive Phil ‘Little Phil’ Alguin as freighter docks, Freeport, Texas, 1923
Date Created: February 1923
Date: 1923-02
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Phil “Little Phil” Alguin was arrested for killing Detective Sargent John Fitzgerald in 1921, found evading police in Mexico. Alguin had a long history of petty crimes and had been in and out of jail for most of his life. He was brought to the U.S. by Federal Agent Les Manning and a Mexican officer on the S.S. Freeport Sulphur No. 6, a slow freighter travelling between Tampico and Freeport.
On a freighter, a group of men are huddled on the deck while people look from the railing above.
A different photograph of the S.S. Freeport Sulphur No. 6 taken on the same occasion appears with the article, “Alguin’s Love Dream Ended,” Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 1923: 14
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Alguin, Phil Murder Case “Little Phil”

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
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