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Description:: Two Los Angeles policemen displaying the briefcase bomb Timothy P. Blevins used in an attempted bank robbery. A message is written on the inner lid of the box: "The black owl will [?] you death! Don't [?]"
Date:: December 31, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A gun was found on Al Joseph's body, who was a reported criminal and gunman who used to work for Farmer Page. Milton "Farmer" Page was known for his illegal gambling operations in Los Angeles. He was acquitted and not charged with murder.
Date:: February, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Det. Lloyd Hurst found a gold ring scattered among ashes that included Rose Spinelli's remains. She is believed to have been murdered by her husband, William Spinelli.
Date:: December, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Terrell, Maurice
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Howard L. Barlow sits in the witness stand during the trial of Leo Patrick Kelley, charged for the murder of Myrtle Mellus. He holds a piece of folded paper and a pencil in his hands, going over the findings of Kelley's fingerprints that were on the whiskey bottle, which is placed on the ledge in front of him. Reported in "Police Say Fingerprints Prove Kelly Slayer: Los Angeles Detectives Believe They Have Clinched Killing Of Mrs. Mellus," The Sun, 10 Aug. 1928: 10.
Date:: August 9, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Traffic officer R. W. Olson standing behind the briefcase bomb that Timothy P. Blevins used in an attempted bank robbery. Photo appears with the article, "Spring Street Banker Frustrated Bomber who Demands $100,000 in Death Threat," Los Angeles Times, 01 Jan. 1932: A.
Date:: December 31, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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