Subject: Detectives--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph of Peggy Caffee, witness to the murder of Alberta Meadows, is seated with District Attorney William C. Doran (seated on the left). Los Angeles detective Sergeant Dwight Longuevan is also present (2nd from right).
Date:: [July 14, 1922]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, "Points Out Spot Where Slayer Caught Victim; Death Scene Pictured; Eyewitness of Killing Tells How Victim Was Pursued and Beaten Down," Los Angeles Times, 15 July, 1922: A1
Date:: July 14, 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 75-year-old Patrick J. McManus (center) examining what looks like a piece of exposed film with Detective Lieutenants Joe Filkas (left) and William Baker. Filkas and Baker are investigating the mysterious death of McManus's wife Josephine. McManus came home to find his wife had been burglarized, but was still alive. The couple went to bed and in the morning Mrs. McManus was dead. There were bruises on her neck and gashes on her back.
Date:: February 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "New Names In Fronk Case," Los Angeles Times, 09 Jan 1926: A1.
Date:: January 8, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Likely related to the article, "Large Dope Find Made By Officers," Los Angeles Times, 15 Jun. 1935: 2
Date:: [circa June, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Attorney Donald A. Rothrock was charged with two counts of attempted murder and one of assault with a deadly weapon when he fired his gun at a restaurant, seriously wounding a waitress.
Date:: September 13, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: from left to right: Samuel Whittaker, H. M. Swanson, Det. Lt. Ray Giese, Sgt. C. L. Huff. Swanson, a reporter, talks to Whittaker as he's being booked by Sgt. Huff.
Date:: March 19, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 25-year-old Swiss chauffeur Gottfried "Fred" Stettler is being held in suspicion of the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Carl and Dorothea Barbour. Stettler was charged with two counts of murder, two counts of burglary, and one count of arson. The victims were found partially cremated in bed with their skulls smashed.
Date:: February 21, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to "Suit Leads to Stabbing: City Prosecuter Aide Wounded," Los Angeles Times, 09 Jul 1935: A1.
Date:: July 8, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: This photograph is likely related to the article, “Two Clews Guide Hunt for Bomber of Editor,” Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec 1935: 8.
Date:: December 18, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Finley, Howard, b. 1899 or 1900
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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