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Ben Getzoff was convicted of conspiracy to give bribes in connection with attempts to dismiss charges against defendents in the Julian Petroleum Corporation stock overissue cases. He was convicted; he owned the tailor shop on Spring Street where much of the bribery activity directed at district attorney Asa Keyes took place. Reported in "KEYES CASE HARD FOUGHT: Every Angla of Bribery Plot Trial in Which Three Were Convicted Bitterly Contested," Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 1930: 2. Typescript with negative: Convicted briber collapses in jail -- Ben Getzoff, convicted as the "go-between" in Los Angeles bribery cases, in which former district attorney Asa Keyes also was convicted, moans in the jail hospital: "I'm a sick man." Getzoff has confessed to his part in additional bribing, which is predicted will result in startling intictments. Getzoff is shown attended by a jail interne, H. E. Sterner. --JH-- 2/11/10. Text from negative sleeve: Getzoff, Ben & Dave. Bribery case.
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b&w glass negative
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uclamss_1429_b3704_G1630 ark:/21198/z1w14zt5
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Subject
Prisoners--California--Los Angeles Getzoff, Ben, 1876-1936 Getzoff, Dave
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