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Title: Gambling trial
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1934
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: The fate of more than 15,000 of those tricky marble games hung in the balance on August 11, 1934, in Los Angeles. The question of whether they are games of skill or games of chance is being tested at the trial of James Martin. The photo shows one of the marble games in court. Left to right, Deputy City Attorney Randolph Karr, Judge Alfred Paonessa, Officer C. E. Larson, and Defense Attorney Wyman Reynolds.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00049694
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 5271.
CARL0000053711
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/18115
Subject: Martin, James
Gambling and crime--California--Los Angeles
Pinball machines--California--Los Angeles
Trials--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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