J. O. Shapiro, Paul McDonald, Harry Regan, Everett J. Randall, Jack Armel, and James Mitchell are held in custody on charges of racketeering, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: J. O. Shapiro, Paul McDonald, Harry Regan, Everett J. Randall, Jack Armel, and James Mitchell are held in custody on charges of racketeering, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: February 21, 1936
Date: 1936-02-21
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Nine men were arrested from a downtown office for varying the famed numbers racket that had been operated for years in New York and other eastern cities by the late "Dutch" Schultz.
Photograph appears with the article, "Nine Seized in Raid on Numbers Racket," Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb 1936: A1.
Shapiro shields his eyes with his hand, holding his hat in his lap. McDonald sits with his hands folded in his lap, looking into the camera's lens. Regan slouches in his chair and obscures his face with a paper while Randall reads the newspaper in his lap. Armel and Mitchell read another newspaper, covering their mouths with handkerchiefs.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: Following a raid on an asserted numbers racket yesterday, five of the suspects were questioned in the District Attorney's office. Left to right, Jack Armel, Everett J. Randall, Harry Regan, Paul McDonald and J. O. Shapiro. The men were arrested in a downtown office building by Capt. Clyde Plummer and his vice squad.
Text from negative sleeve: 3506 - Jo Shapiro .- Paul McDonald Harry Regan Everett J. Randall Jack Armel James Mitchell Racetrack Racket.} defendants [stamped:] Mar 4 1936
Handwritten on negative: Jo Shapiro Paul McDonald Harry Regan Everett J. Randall, Jack Armel James Mitchell

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Randall, Everett J., 1895-1974
McDonald, Paul
Regan, Harry
Armel, Jack, 1911-1991
Shapiro, J.O. (Joe Shapiro)
Mitchell, James
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Law enforcement--California--Los Angeles
Police raids--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_12497
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hmhmx
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