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Title supplied by cataloger. Newspaper article reads, "Angry Pacoima Churchmen Nab Suspect - Irate church members armed with baseball bats, garden tools and lead pipes last night captured a former parishioner of the Mary Immaculate Church in Pacoima after the church poor box was robbed of $2.09." Photograph caption dated November 18, 1959 reads, "Gene Raymond Townsley -- Arrested in Church Theft"
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1 photographic print :b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Burglars--California--Los Angeles Thieves--California--Los Angeles Church robberies--California--Los Angeles Crime--California--Los Angeles Pacoima (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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