Resource Type: still image / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Subject: Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Deputy Sheriff Carmack and Larry Morrell dig up human skeleton from East Los Angeles backyard. The skeleton was found by a 10-year-old boy and they were believed to have belonged to 50 or 60 year old man.
Date:: February 12, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Los Angeles District Attorney's investigator, Lloyd Yarrow, testifies in the bribery trial of George K. Thornton. Thornton, a California Board of Equalization officer, was charged with accepting money from Santa Barbara cafe owner Agnes O'Brien, for reinstatement of her liquor license.
Date:: July 30, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Los Angeles District Attorney's investigator, Lloyd Yarrow, testifies in the bribery trial of George K. Thornton. Thornton, a California Board of Equalization officer, was charged with accepting money from Santa Barbara cafe owner Agnes O'Brien, for reinstatement of her liquor license.
Date:: July 30, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Detective Lieutenant Miles Ledbetter and Ray Pinker search under sofa cushions for evidence relating to the murder of Celia Holmes. Mrs. Holmes was found shot and bruised in a Mulholland Way ravine.
Date:: January 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Unidentified detective may by Verne Miller, who was McGlinchey's partner in 1936.
Date:: July 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: At center, from left to right, Paul McDonald and Joe Shapiro sit behind a table or desk in the District Attorney's office after being brought in for questioning on racketeering charges. At far right, Claude Forbes leans over the table and reaches for McDonald. McDonald and Forbes appear to be in a fight. McDonald swings his arm upward towards Forbes. Meanwhile, Forbes grabs at a handkerchief or cloth held by McDonald. Between them, Shapiro sits back with his eyes closed. A wall and window at right stretch behind them.
Date:: [circa February 27, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: From left to right: Det. Lt. F. L. McGlinchey (seated), Lou Daro (seated), Ed M. Crum, Det. Lt. L. E. Sanderson, Capt. E. A. Frendenberg (seated)
Date:: July 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Shortly after an altercation with wrestling promoter Lou Daro 35-year-old William Focher was shot by police officers after they had confused him for a bandit. After several hours of being treated at the hospital he died. Moore was in company of Focher at the time of the shooting and was held in jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.
Date:: July 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Related to "Man Killed in Fight at Beer Parlor," Los Angeles Times, 24 Jul 1935: A3.
Date:: July 26, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Investigative reporters standing outside the house on Templeton St. where Zeke Caress, his wife, Helen Caress, and his chauffeur, Tadashi Wakabayashi, were held captive at 4700 Templeton St. in El Sereno, Los Angeles. Zeke (E. L., Ezekiel Logan) Caress, his wife Helen Caress, and Tadashi Wakabayashi, their chauffeur, were kidnapped from their Hollywood Hills home on December 20, 1930. They were held in a house near El Sereno, and freed after their abductors were captured by on their way cash the ransom checks.
Date:: [circa 1931]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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