Los Angeles police officers and detectives in shootout with murderer George Farley in his Los Angeles Home. In an attempt so serve Farley eviction papers, T.D. Crittenden and his aide W. L. Romer were shot by Farley. The bodies of Crittenden and Romer are depicted in the distance. Tear gas can be seen billowing from the home and Detective Lieutenant Robert Underwood can be seen in the far right behind a car with his rifle drawn.
This photograph appears with the article "Pitched Battle Rages Around Barricaded Home of Killer of Two Officers," Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 1938: pg. 12.