Genre: glass plate negatives / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections / Subject: Sheriffs--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Line of automobiles in funeral procession for sheriff Martin Aguirre passing Citizens Bank building. Reported in "FRIENDS BID AGUIRRE ADIEU: Remarkable Assemblage Attends Last Rites to Noted Pioneer of Early California," Los Angeles Times, 01 Mar. 1929: A1
Date:: February 28, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Eugene Biscailuz sitting with Richmond A. Edwards a member of Los Angeles' first sheriff airplane squadron.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Arthur C. Burch walking in the middle of Deputy Sheriff Fox and Deputy Sheriff Nolan. This photograph was taken when the jury and Burch were taken to the scene of the crime. Reported in "Burch and Jury View Murder Scene in Glen: Prisoner Jokes and Laughs When He is Taken to Death Spot; Bereaved Father Follows," Los Angeles Times, 01 Dec. 1921: II1.
Date:: November 30, 1921
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Chief deputy district attorney Buron Fitts (seated, right) with Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs: seated, from left: Deputy George Contreras, and Deputy James McDonald; standing, left to right: Deputy Sheriff Vincent J. Monteleone and investigator Harry Johnson from the District Attorney's office.
Date:: 1930-1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Deputy Sheriff Gilbert Blasdell and Arthur "Shorty" Smith seated at a table. Deputy Sheriff Blasdell has a pen in hand pointing towards some papers while Mr. Smith looks down towards the papers. A calendar from Behrendt Levy Co. Insurance hangs behind them on the wall. Arthur "Shorty" Smith was arrested by sheriff Blasdell and was detained as a witness in the murder case of the sisters Nina and May Martin in late 1925.
Date:: [between 1925-1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Los Angeles County sheriff Frank Cochran (left) stands beside former district attorney Asa Keyes as he boards a train for prison after being convicted of accepting a bribe from the Julian Petroleum Corporation. Cochran was responsible for escorting prisoners to the San Quentin prison. Reported in "KEYES LEAVES FOR PRISON, FAMILY PARTING TEARFUL: Ex-Prosecutor Denies Fear That Convicts Will Show Malice; Fight May Still Continue," Nathan, Albert F., Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar 1930: A1.
Date:: March 11, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Former district attorney, Asa Keyes (left), convicted of accepting a bribe from the Julian Petroleum Corporation, gets ready to leave the jail for prison. He is about to leave with Sheriff Frank Cochran, who will escort him to San Quentin prison. Reported in "KEYES LEAVES FOR PRISON, FAMILY PARTING TEARFUL: Ex-Prosecutor Denies Fear That Convicts Will Show Malice; Fight May Still Continue," Nathan, Albert F., Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar 1930: A1.
Date:: March 11, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Murder suspect Lowell Bell seated at a desk beteeen undersheriff Frank Dewar (left) and deputy sheriff William J. Bright. Photo appears with the article "Las Confesses Teuber Murder: Ex-Sailor's Admissions to Reopen Inquiry San Diego Girl Hanging May Be Cleared Up Story Has Flaws but Clews Will Be Checked," Los Angeles Times, 02 Oct. 1931: A5.
Date:: Ocotber 1, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Undersheriff Frank Dewar (right) standing next to an unidentified man in front of a desk. The unidentified man holds a wooden box in his left hand and inhis right hand he holds the top of a box that had enclosed the wooden box, which wrapped in Chriatmas paper with a holly design on it and which is is labeled "Please no body else / personal to Mary / please." Dewar holds the bottom of the gift box. Behind them are what look like crime scene photographs and a map.
Date:: 1930/1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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