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

Description:: District Attorney Buron Fitts (standing) announces a new "gang squad" created to drive out Los Angeles gangsters and racketeers. The squad consists of six men, including leader John Klein (seated), formerly assigned to special duty with the grand jury. The group is also working with two police officers, one from Chicago and the other from New York, who will help to identify gangsters who have moved in from the east
Date:: November 17, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Members of a suspected gang from Sleepy Lagoon, located in the present day city of Maywood, Los Angeles.
Date:: ca. 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Mrs. Elaine HuddleDean Farris
Date:: between February 5, 1940 and April 20, 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mrs. Elaine Huddle and Dean Farris, witnesses at the trial for the murder of gambler George (Les) Bruneman. Farris was a bartender at the cafe owned by Huddle's husband, where the murder took place. Charged with the killing is ex-convict Peter Pianezzi. Pianezzi allegedly shot Bruneman 16 times and then fatally shot Frank A. Greuzard, a cafe employee who tried to chase after him. Both Farris and Huddle positively identified Pianezzi as the murderer. The murder, which took place on October 25, 1937, is thought to have been gang-related. There were two trials for this case. The first ended in a hung jury, 9-3 for the acquittal of Pianezzi. In the second, Pianezzi received a life sentence for the two murders. Later, at age 80, Pianezzi received a pardon based on innocence.
Date:: between February 5, 1940 and April 20, 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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