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Title
Robbery suspect captured, 1960
Creator
Swaim
Date Created and/or Issued
1960-02-09
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961
Rights Information
Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
USC Libraries Special Collections
University of Southern California
specol@usc.edu
Description
3 images. Robbery suspect captured, 9 February 1960. Quentin Franks -- 21 years (captured by two restaurant workers)
Kay O'Grady -- 35 years (piano player locked in ice box)
Harold Wenzler -- 49 years (locked in ice box)
Ronald Lee Curtis -- 21 years
Ancel Racette -- 35 years (They captured robber).
Caption slip reads: "Daily. Photographer: Sawim. Date: 1960-02-09. Reporter: Swaim. Assignment: Robbery -- capture. 7-8: Quentin Franks , 21, robbery suspect, lying on emergency hospital table after beating by two restaurant workers who caught him. Police said Franks was in narcotics 'withdrawal'. 13-14: Kay O'Grady, 35, red -haired pianist, sleeping on police couch and Harold Wenzler, 49, after four hour ordeal in restaurant ice box, where suspect locked them. 19-20: Ronald Lee Curtis, 21, (janitor) left, and Ancel Racette, 35 (chef), telling police how they disarmed and overpowered drugged suspect, held him for police."
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : negatives, b&w
13 x 10 cm.
image/tiff
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
examiner-m
EXM-N-12715-006~1...~3
http://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m25246
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/EXM-N-12715-006~1.jpg
Language
English
Subject
Robbery
Time Period
1960-02-09
Place
California
USA
Source
12715-006 [Sleeve Number]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation
Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961
Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961

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