Image / Copy of confessed police killer Phil Alguin's mugshot, Los Angeles, circa 1923

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Title: Copy of confessed police killer Phil Alguin's mugshot, Los Angeles, circa 1923
Date Created and/or Issued: 1923
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: Phil (Little Phil) Alguin shot and killed police detective John J. Fitzgerald in June, 1921, then fled to Mexico, prompting an extended manhunt. He was captured in Freeport, Texas in 1923 and imprisoned at San Quentin for life.
Handwritten on negative: Phil Alguin
Text from negative sleeve: Alguin, Phil. Murder case.
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3690_G046
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Criminals--California--Los Angeles
Alguin, Phil, b. 1895
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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