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Description:: Photograph appears with the article "BURIED BASTILLE DOORS OPENED AGAIN: Office Alterations Expose Barriers Used Fifty Years Ago," Los Angeles Times, 04 Dec. 1929: A11.
Date:: December 3, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Charles Wesley Way dressed in overalls, sitting in front of jail cell after his arrest for threatening to shoot oil workers. Reported in "TERROR REIGN IN OIL AREA ENDED: Armed Threatener of Men Taken by Officers Terrorist Former Inmate of State Asylum Fancied Wrongs Held Cause for Man's Actions," Los Angeles Times, 01 Oct 1925: 7.
Date:: September 30, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photo appears with title "Pastor Starts Contempt Sentence," Los Angeles Times, 06 May 1930: A1.
Date:: May 5, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: The jail cell of Clara Phillips after her escape. Window bars are missing. In November Phillips had been convicted of the murder of Alberta Meadows.
Date:: December 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Bridge of Sighs, a covered passageway connecting the jail to the Hall of Justice.
Date:: 1921
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: No record of Louise Tewks or Teuks was found in the Los Angeles Times. Spelling of her last name is unknown.
Date:: August 8, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, “Paroled Pair’s Deadly Weapon,” Los Angeles Times, 18 Jul. 1935: A2.
Date:: July 18, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, “Paroled Pair’s Deadly Weapon,” Los Angeles Times, 18 Jul. 1935: A2.
Date:: July 18, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: From left to right: Samuel Whittaker, H. M. Swanson, Det. Lt. Ray E. Giese, Sgt C. L. Huff. Whittaker removes his watch as he's booked at Los Angeles Central Jail.
Date:: March 19, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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