Subject: Legal / Genre: cellulose nitrate film and news photographs / Language: No linguistic content / Names: Filkas, Joseph, 1897-1968 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: 75-year-old Patrick J. McManus (center) examining what looks like a piece of exposed film with Detective Lieutenants Joe Filkas (left) and William Baker. Filkas and Baker are investigating the mysterious death of McManus's wife Josephine. McManus came home to find his wife had been burglarized, but was still alive. The couple went to bed and in the morning Mrs. McManus was dead. There were bruises on her neck and gashes on her back.
Date:: February 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Group portrait of Detective Lieutenant Joe Filkas with members of a special squadron organized to combat criminals who attack women and children. The squadron was organized by Chief Davis following a series of attacks on five women and an 11-year-old girl.
Date:: August 31, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Detective Joe Filkas questions winter sports coach at USC Ernest LaValle over the murder of his friend Mrs. Celia L. Holmes.
Date:: [circa January 29, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Detective Lieutenant Joseph Filkas appears at a press conference involving the murder of Mrs. Celia L. Holmes. He is probably announcing his discovery of new evidence which was a small white button found near the murder scene.
Date:: [circa January 29, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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