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Title: Abe "Kid Twist" Reles in Los Angeles
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
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Description: Lower left corner is damaged.
Photograph caption dated August 20, 1940 reads, "Al Tannenbaum (not shown here) and Abe 'Kid Twist' Reles, alleged Brooklyn gangsters, today told the Los Angeles Grand Jury that 'Bugs' Siegel 'is a bigger man in the rackets than Louis Lepke ever was.' The two men were brought here to 'sing' about Siegel, who is accused of the 'rub-out' of Harry Schachter. Siegel was nabbed in a $200,000 mansion in Holmby Hills."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00027793
Herald Examiner Collection
SCHE_b004_f1_i28
CARL0004957913
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/8131
Subject: Reles, Abe,--1906-1941
Reles, Abe,--1906-1941--Trials, litigation, etc
Siegel, Bugsy,--1906-1947--Trials, litigation, etc
Criminals--United States
Organized crime--United States
Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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