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Title: Al Tannenbaum, Abe Reles
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1940
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Al Tannenbaum, at left, and Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, at right, alleged Brooklyn gangsters. They appeared before the Grand Jury and accused Bugsy Siegel of taking part in the Hollywood killing of Harry Schachter. Reles testified he heard Siegel say: "That job was perfect. I took part in it myself." Schachter was assertedly killed because he knew too much about Murder, Inc.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00027796
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 8865-Siegel, Bugsy.; HE-002-584 4x5
CARL0000030033
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/9860
Subject: Tannenbaum, Al
Reles, Abe
Organized crime--California--Los Angeles
Murder--California--Los Angeles
Murderers--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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