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Title: Attorneys in Bugsy Siegel trial
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1944
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: Lower left corner of photograph is damaged.
Photograph caption dated May 23, 1944 reads, "Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, key witness in the Brooklyn Murder Inc., case, is shown in center conferring today with United States Attorney William Fleet Palmer, at right, and Assistant United States Attorney Attilio Di Giralamo at left. Reles was brought here from New York secretly for the hearing on the complaint asking the removal to Brooklyn of Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, who is accused in New York of harboring Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, racketeer. Siegel says he knows nothing about the case and is fighting removal."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00027795
Herald Examiner Collection
SCHE_b004_f2_i29
CARL0004958794
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/8142
Subject: Siegel, Bugsy,--1906-1947--Trials, litigation, etc
Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles
Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Public prosecutors--California--Los Angeles County
Judges--United States
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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