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

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:: In their pursuit of Mrs. Celia L. Holme's murderer, Detectives Miles Ledbetter and Joe Filkas question Ernest LaValle, the winter sports coach at USC and a friend of Mrs. Holmes. From left to right, Ernest LaValle, Joe Filkas, and Miles Ledbetter.
Date:: [circa January 29, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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:: 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

Description:: Detectives Joe Filkas and Edward Romero examining the body of Martha Neve, who died unexpectedly in her apartment. The detectives determined that it was not a murder or robbery as suspected.
Date:: [circa February 1, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: This photograph is likely related to the article, "MAN KILLED BY ROBBERS: Hardware Storekeeper Hit on Head in Furious Death Struggle," Los Angeles Times, 8 Jul. 1935: 3
Date:: July 7, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Different photographs taken on the same occasion appear with the article, “Fake Bomb Sent to M’Adoo Causes Downtown Furor,” Los Angeles Times, 25 Jul 1934: 1.
Date:: July 24, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: In 1935, William Hardy confessed to the beating of his half-sister Helen Katherine Williams with a hammer. The photograph depicts Hardy in handcuffs retracing the event with investigators,
Date:: February 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Thad Brown (left) and J. P. Filkas (right) hold a package with its contents arranged on a flat surface.
Date:: July 24, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: In 1935, William Hardy confessed to the beating of his half-sister Helen Katherine Williams with a hammer. The photograph depicts Hardy in handcuffs retracing the event with investigators,
Date:: February 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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