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Crowd with their cars on a marshy bank, awaiting killer Phil Alguin's aquatic arrival, Freeport, Texas, 1923

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Title: Crowd with their cars on a marshy bank, awaiting killer Phil Alguin's aquatic arrival, Freeport, Texas, 1923
Date Created and/or Issued: February 9, 1923
1923-09-02
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Ten cars and approx. thirty men stand on the banks of marshland. In the foreground, a small wooden bridge crosses over a creek. Four men stand on this bridge. Phil (Little Phil) Alguin shot and killed police detective John J. Fitzgerald in June, 1921, then fled to Mexico, prompting an extended. He was captured in Freeport, Texas in 1923 and imprisoned at San Quentin for life.
Handwritten on negative: #8
Text from negative sleeve: Alguin, Phil. (Capture) Murder case.
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3690_G048
ark:/21198/z1s52jtw
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Crowds--Texas--Freeport
Wetlands--Texas--Freeport
Fugitives from justice
Alguin, Phil, b. 1895
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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