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

Description:: Marion Cooper, also known as Geneva Albitz, has been arrested and sentenced to jail time for passing four worthless checks.
Date:: February 1923
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 72-year-old James Carter, otherwise known as "Deep Sea Jimmy" is being held on $10, 000 bond for defrauding Herman Bishop of $3500 in a stock deal. Police are searching for three other suspects.
Date:: March 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to the articles "'Doctor' Is Sued Again for Money," Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 1924: 7, "Jury Will Try Russian Accused of Swindling," Los Angeles Times, 15 May 1930: A5, and "Prince's Trial Delayed When Juror Disappears," Los Angeles Times, 4 Jun. 1930: A12.
Date:: May 14, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: In a hallway teeming with other men watching him Carter tilts his hat to cover his face while a photographer standing several feet away takes his picture.
Date:: March 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Similar photograph appears with the article, "Mystic in Bunko Net," Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec 1935: A1.
Date:: December 20, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: James walks through an open door with his hat in hand. A man is seen following him.
Date:: March 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Rex H.W. Albrextondare, hack doctor, sits at a table with two women wearing hats. Albrextondare stares right at the camera as does the woman in the middle. The woman on the right is potentially Mrs. Ruth Shaw, who in 1930 was charged alongside Albrextondare for petty threat and violation of the State Medical Act. This woman has a pocketbook on the table, and is looking down, resting her elbow on a newspaper.
Date:: [between April 1924 - May 1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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