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Los Angeles Trust and Saving Bank, Huntington Park Branch, after robbery, Huntington Park, 1921

Description:
Exterior view of Los Angeles Trust and Savings Bank, Huntington Park Branch, 2-story brick building at corner of Clarendon Avenue and Pacific Boulevard, with about 12 men on sidewalk and near curb, with car at right, dog. Signs read: Huntington Park Branch, Los Angeles Trust and Savings Bank; Viola J. Miller, School of Dressmaking, Gowns; Schulkinds Building; Chiropractors, Holmes & Holmes.
Date:
1921
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Los Angeles Trust and Saving Bank, Huntington Park Branch, after robbery, Huntington Park, 1921

First National Bank robbery suspects Jose Hernandez and Juan Jiminez with Deputy Sheriff William Bright, 1922

Description:
Related to 2 articles: (1) "Nab Four For Bank Robbery, Mexicans Are Taken After One Hour’s Chase, First National of Arcadia Out Five Thousand, Cashier Saves Institution from Greater Loss." Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 1922. Print. The article states: "… That the four men are members of the band that held up and robbed the Bank of Alhambra Tuesday afternoon and escaped with $700 in cash was asserted by the arresting officers …" (2) "Outlaws Raid Alhambra Bank, Armed Men Grab Cash and Escape to City, Seven Hundred Dollars is Taken from Cage, Robbers Force Autoists to Help Their Flight." Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 1922. Print.
Date:
1922
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
First National Bank robbery suspects Jose Hernandez and Juan Jiminez with Deputy Sheriff William Bright, 1922

First National Bank robbery suspects Salvadore Mendivil and Brulio Galindo with Deputy Sheriff A.L. Manning, 1922

Description:
Related to 2 articles: (1) "Nab Four For Bank Robbery, Mexicans Are Taken After One Hour’s Chase, First National of Arcadia Out Five Thousand, Cashier Saves Institution from Greater Loss." Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 1922. Print. The article states: "… That the four men are members of the band that held up and robbed the Bank of Alhambra Tuesday afternoon and escaped with $700 in cash was asserted by the arresting officers …" (2) "Outlaws Raid Alhambra Bank, Armed Men Grab Cash and Escape to City, Seven Hundred Dollars is Taken from Cage, Robbers Force Autoists to Help Their Flight." Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 1922. Print.
Date:
1922
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
First National Bank robbery suspects Salvadore Mendivil and Brulio Galindo with Deputy Sheriff A.L. Manning, 1922

Body of Nina Lee Deloney; caked in dirt, laying in swallow grave amongst rocks; James P. Watson's murder victim, Calif., 1920

Description:
James P. Watson had married between 16-22 women, 7 of which he confessed to killing. He was caught when his last wife, Kathryn Wombacher became suspicious of his activities and hired a private investigator. The investigator uncovered Watson’s scheme of placing personal ads in newspapers under different alias in attempts to marry women and gain their property. Once under arrest Watson confessed to multiple murders of previous wives and led police to the grave of his last victim, Nina Lee DeLaney. He was sentenced to life for the murder of DeLaney. In 1939 he died of pneumonia in San Quentin prison
Date:
May 9, 1920
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Body of Nina Lee Deloney; caked in dirt, laying in swallow grave amongst rocks; James P. Watson's murder victim, Calif., 1920

Typewritten letter from detective J.F. Bean to police captain Charles R. Moffatt describing objects recovered from scene of murder of Fay Sudow, 1920

Description:
Text reads, in part: Los Angeles, Dec. 13, 1920, 2:30 a.m. Capt. Charles R. Moffatt, Commanding Detective Bureau. Sir: At 11:30 of Dec. 12 -- or tonight -- I was told by Paul J. Braud, a reporter for the Los Angeles Examiner, that if I went to the Examiner office I would be given some valuable information concerning the murder of an unidentified woman found in the eucalyptus grove at Edendale earlier in the day. ... I saw on a table a large amount of jewelry, a large leather folder, a suitcase (leather), a pile of women's clothing, two magazines and some papers, a thermometer and some collar buttons, etc. ... I asked [the reporters] to take me out to the place where they had found these things ... All of this stuff I have filed with the property clerk under my name so that it will be at hand for the officers investigating the case this morning. ... Respectfully, J F Bean.
Date:
December 13, 1920
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Typewritten letter from detective J.F. Bean to police captain Charles R. Moffatt describing objects recovered from scene of murder of Fay Sudow, 1920

First National Bank, interior, following robbery, Arcadia, 1922

Description:
Related to 2 articles: (1) "Nab Four For Bank Robbery, Mexicans Are Taken After One Hour’s Chase, First National of Arcadia Out Five Thousand, Cashier Saves Institution from Greater Loss." Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 1922. Print. The article states: "… That the four men are members of the band that held up and robbed the Bank of Alhambra Tuesday afternoon and escaped with $700 in cash was asserted by the arresting officers …" (2) "Outlaws Raid Alhambra Bank, Armed Men Grab Cash and Escape to City, Seven Hundred Dollars is Taken from Cage, Robbers Force Autoists to Help Their Flight." Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 1922. Print.
Date:
1922
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
First National Bank, interior, following robbery, Arcadia, 1922

Reward poster for Maude Moore and Martin Hunter, Knoxville, Tenn., 1920

Description:
Text reads, in part: $500 Reward. Knoxville, Tenn., August 4, 1920. A reward of $500 has been offered for the arrest of MAUDE MOORE, formerly of Knoxville, Tenn., now under indictment in the criminal court of Knox County, Tenn., charged with murder in the first degree, for killing LeRoy D. Harth, a Knoxville automobile dealer, September 8th, 1919, on a highway in said County, for the alleged purpose of robbery, the killing occurring in the night time. ... In connection with the same crime, one Martin Hunter was also indicted as an accessory after the fact. ... a reward of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) for the arrest of said Martin Hunter. ... Ed. M. Haynes, Chief of Police, Knoxville, Tennessee
Date:
1920
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Reward poster for Maude Moore and Martin Hunter, Knoxville, Tenn., 1920

Car possibly used in kidnap of C.B. Duncan, Beverly Hills, 1921

Description:
Probably related to article, "Kidnapers of Officer Hunted, Five Armed Autoists Abduct Street Superintendent, Escape is Made in Motor Car Believed Stolen, Plot to Rob Beverly Hills Bank Suspected," Los Angeles Times, April 1, 1921. The article states: "Five armed men believed to have been planning to hold up the First National Bank of Beverly Hills, yesterday morning abducted C.B. Duncan, Superintendent of Streets of Beverly Hills, and after forcing him into an automobile drove to a clump of eucalyptus trees near Culver City, where he was released…"
Date:
1921
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Car possibly used in kidnap of C.B. Duncan, Beverly Hills, 1921

First National Bank, exterior, following robbery, with people gathered, Arcadia, 1922

Description:
Related to 2 articles: (1) "Nab Four For Bank Robbery, Mexicans Are Taken After One Hour’s Chase, First National of Arcadia Out Five Thousand, Cashier Saves Institution from Greater Loss." Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 1922. Print. The article states: "… That the four men are members of the band that held up and robbed the Bank of Alhambra Tuesday afternoon and escaped with $700 in cash was asserted by the arresting officers …" (2) "Outlaws Raid Alhambra Bank, Armed Men Grab Cash and Escape to City, Seven Hundred Dollars is Taken from Cage, Robbers Force Autoists to Help Their Flight." Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 1922. Print.
Date:
1922
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
First National Bank, exterior, following robbery, with people gathered, Arcadia, 1922

Letter from murder victim Fay Sudow to Fred Allen (Alfred W. Allen), 1920

Description:
2-page handwritten letter, photographed pinned to board, from Fay Sudow, addressed to Fred Allen, 711 Central Bldg., Main and 6th St., Los Angeles, Cal., with 2 envelopes, 1 postmarked Chicago, Ill., Oct 16, 5 PM, 1920, with the logo of Morrison Hotel and Terrace Garden, Chicago, and 1 postmarked Plymouth, Ill., Oct 27, 2 PM, 1920. Fay Sudow's attorney was named Alfred W. Allen, with an office at 485 Central Bldg.
Date:
1920
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Letter from murder victim Fay Sudow to Fred Allen (Alfred W. Allen), 1920

Los Angeles Trust and Saving Bank, Huntington Park Branch, after robbery, Huntington Park, 1921

Description:
Exterior view of Los Angeles Trust and Savings Bank, Huntington Park Branch, 2-story brick building at corner of Clarendon Avenue and Pacific Boulevard, with crowd of about 25 people on sidewalk and near curb, with 2 men on bicycles at right, boy on bicycle reading newspaper and boy holding stack of newspapers at left. Signs read: Huntington Park Branch, Los Angeles Trust and Savings Bank, Los Angeles, Cal., Capital and Reserve; Clarendon Ave. (on lamppost); S. Pacific Bl. (on curb); Viola J. Miller, School of Dressmaking, Gowns; Schulkinds Building; Chiropractors, Holmes & Holmes; Bluemle & Gibson, Hardware, Rugs, Furniture.
Date:
1921
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Los Angeles Trust and Saving Bank, Huntington Park Branch, after robbery, Huntington Park, 1921