William and Margaret von Brincken being interrogated by police over allegations they faked a robbery report, Los Angeles, 1933
Item Overview
- Title
- William and Margaret von Brincken being interrogated by police over allegations they faked a robbery report, Los Angeles, 1933
- Date Created
- January 27, 1933
- Date
- 1933-01-27
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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This photograph appears with the article, "Baron Quizzed on Shot; Bullet 'Fired at Him' Came From Own Gun, Say Police to Bewilderment of Titled Writer," Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 1933: A1.
Police Lieutenant Detective Jack Dwhight and city attorney William Krowl question Wilhelm von Brincken and his wife Margaret after discovering that a bullet shot into their car came from their own gun.
Von Brincken's full name is Baron Wilhelm Ferdinand von Brincken. He first came to the United States as a diplomat prior to World War I. When the Great War broke out he was arrested and imprisoned at McNeil Island federal prison in Washington. After his released he became an American citizen and dropped his title. He began working in the film industry in the 1920s, and from 1925 on used the first name "William".
The Brincken reported to police that they had been robbed at gunpoint, twice threatened with assault and then involved in a gun battle over a week's time with a gang of men. Police eventually determined none of those events happened and Wilhelm Brincken convicted and fined for filing a false police report. - Caption
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Text from negative sleeve: Von Brincken, William Baron, 1932
Text from newspaper caption: Titled couple's hearing continued in mystery attack; ballistics cause shrugs by 'menaced' baron. Left to right -- Baroness von Brincken, Baron William von Brincken, Detective Lieutenant Dwight and Deputy City Attorney Krowl.
Handwritten on negative: Baroness Von Brincken, William Von Brincken, J. L. Dwight, W. V. Crowl [sic]
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
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