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Description:: Mexican American youths in "zoot suits" are detained for questioning in a Los Angeles jail after a brawl.
Date:: ca. 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Detective Lieutenants B.G. Anderson and Tommy Bryan from the homicide division investigating the murder of soldier Lawrence G. Marple. The man being held for the murder is discharged Navy officer Jack Rhyanne, who admitted to beating and choking Marple in his hotel room. Rhyanne is also being questioned about the earlier murder of Robert M. Byrne
Date:: January 4, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: George Wallace (alias Robert M. Nixon) with U.S. Marshal William S. Sweeney. Wallace is accused of blackmailing lawyer and horse owner Neil S. McCarthy. McCarthy received four letters, allegedly from Wallace, threatening to maim his race horses with poisoned-needle darts if he didn’t pay up. Wallace testified that he had written the letters, but he had been acting on behalf of a gang of “tough eggs” that were behind the scheme.
Date:: [February 14, 1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: State Liquor Administrator George M. Stout, acting as a witness for the prosecution in the liquor license bribe trial. In which several government officials are charged with involvement in a liquor license pay-off scandal to extort money from liquor retailers under threat of causing them to lose their liquor license
Date:: March 4, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: State board of equalization member William G. Bonelli (left) and Chief liquor control officer Merle Templeton talking to each other at the liquor license bribe trial. Both men are accused of involvement in a liquor license bribe scandal in which they allegedly conspired with at least five others to extort money from liquor retailers under threat of causing them to lose their liquor license
Date:: between October 24, 1939 and May 29, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: State board of equalization member William G. Bonelli (left) and Chief liquor control officer Merle Templeton at the liquor license bribe trial. Both men are accused of involvement in a liquor license bribe scandal in which they allegedly conspired with at least five others to extort money from liquor retailers under threat of causing them to lose their liquor license
Date:: between October 24, 1939 and May 29, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: From left to right: Ed Levine, A. Brigham Rose, Richard H. Sampson, Donald MacKay, William G. Bonelli, Merle Templeton, William J. Cook, and unknown (possibly last name O'Brien) at the liquor license bribe trial. Levine, a lobbyist, Bonelli, member of the state board of equalization, Templeton, chief liquor control officer, and Cook, friend and campaign worker for Bonelli are all accused of involvement in a liquor license bribe scandal in which they allegedly conspired to extort money from liquor retailers under threat of causing them to lose their liquor license. Rose is the attorney for Levine, Sampson is representation for Templeton, and MacKay is council for Bonelli.
Date:: between October 24, 1939 and May 29, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Delight Jewett, her father Norman Jewett, and U.S. Attorney Fleet Palmer. The seventeen-year-old Delight Jewett, a follower of cult leader Father Divine, was to be a witness in the case against fellow Divine follower John Wuest Hunt, who had molested Jewett under the pretense of immaculate conception. From left to right, Delight Jewett, Fleet Palmer, and Norman Jewett.
Date:: [circa April 19, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Jury and alternate jurors chosen for the William Bonelli liquor license bribe trial. Bonelli, along with at least six other government officials, is linked to a liquor license pay-off scandal to extort money from liquor retailers under threat of causing them to lose their liquor license
Date:: February 19, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The nineteen members of the Los Angeles County Grand Jury for the year 1934. The jury first met on February 20, 1934, after some trouble in the selection process.
Date:: [circa February 20, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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