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Description:: John Frank Reavis, 26-year-old trombone player and candy salesman, at his trial for the murder of 17-year-old B-girl Alice “Jerry” Burns with Deputy Sheriff Pat Kelley. Reavis confessed to the murder but said that he was in a blind rage when he did it and didn’t know what he was doing. Reavis received a second-degree sentence of five years to life in San Quentin. His eye and left hand are bandaged as the result of a fight he had prior to his arrest
Date:: May 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A. L. Manning was dismissed from his job as deputy sheriff in 1923.
Date:: [circa 1920-1924]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
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:: Arthur B. Crouch was known in Helensville, New Zealand as John Grey or "Honest John."
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Some of the over 4000 candidates for city policeman and county deputy sheriff jobs taking an examination administered by the Civil Service Commission in room 804 of City Hall. In addition to the written examination, potential officers will also undergo a physical test later in the month.
Date:: March 2, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Some of the over 4000 candidates for city policeman and county deputy sheriff jobs taking an examination administered by the Civil Service Commission in room 804 of City Hall. In addition to the written examination, potential officers will also undergo a physical test later in the month.
Date:: March 2, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Some of the over 4000 candidates for city policeman and county deputy sheriff jobs taking an examination administered by the Civil Service Commission in room 804 of City Hall. In addition to the written examination, potential officers will also undergo a physical test later in the month.
Date:: March 2, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Portrait of Los Angeles County Sheriff Capt. Clem Peoples, who was the county jailer from the 1920s to November, 1940.
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
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

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