Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives / Subject: Crime - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Man in the custody of a policeman in front of Red's Auto Shop located at 211 West 12th St.
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: (left to right) Harriet Lund, Bernice Haverty, and Prudence Winterrowd at the Los Angeles County Jail with dolls donated at Christmastime.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: (left to right) Police captain Clement Peoples, Sam Williams, and Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz tasting something with a large spoon at the Los Angeles County Jail.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: County grand jury member Clifford E. Clinton (left, in his bathrobe) and police officer J.E. Hermans investigating a hole in the outside of a house.
Date:: [between 1925 and 1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: L.R. Bowles and A.A. Morris demonstrate a sock machine used at a rehabilitation plant for paroled workers.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Left to right: Detective Lieutenant R.S. Hamilton, Adolfo Campos, Det. Lt. E.J. Henry, and Det. Lt. E.C. Biffle, with a suitcase full of smuggled marijuana. Campos is the suspected smuggler.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Jack "Diamondfield" Davis, a Nevada prospector who stuck it rich after being pardoned for an Idaho murder in 1902. When he was working for a cattle company, Diamondfield was accused of the murder of two sheepherders. He was sentenced to hang, but his execution date was postponed and then changed to life inprisonment after two other men confessed to the crime. Diamondfield was pardoned by Idaho Governor Frank W. Hunt in December of 1902.
Date:: [1930s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Left to right: Detective Lieutenant R.S. Hamilton, Adolfo Campos, Det. Lt. E.J. Henry, and Det. Lt. E.C. Biffle, with a suitcase full of smuggled marijuana. Campos is the suspected smuggler.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Newspaper clipping from the N. Y. Evening Graphic featuring a picture of Mata Hari, a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was accused of being a spy for Germany during World War I. Because of this charge, she was executed in France on October 15, 1917. Review of official case documents in 1985 revealed that Mata Hari was most likely innocent. Mata Hari was the stage name for Margaretha Geertruida "Grietje" Zelle
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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