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Description
John Rettenger takes the stand during bribery case of district attorney Asa Keyes, indicating the size of the roll of bills that were allegedly exchanged between Asa Keyes and Ben Getzoff. Photo appears with the article "'Roll of Money Was That Thick,'" Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 1929: 2. Typescript filed with negative: SAW BRIBE ROLL "THREE INCHES THICK" --- / John Rettenger, former tailor in the Los Angeles shop where the Julian Petroleum fraud cases were alleged to have been "fixed, testifies for the state in the bribery trial of Former District Attorney Asa Keyes and five others. Rettenger declared he saw a roll of bills "three inches thick" divided between Keyes and another defendant by Ben Getzoff, alleged "fixer." --J.H.--1/18/29. Text from newspaper caption: Another Tailor Accuses Ex-Prosecutor / John Rettenger, former Getzoff employee on witness stand, indicates with his hand the size of currency roll which he declared was given by Keyes and Reimer to Getzoff. Text from negative sleeve: Rettenger, John. Keyes Trial.
Type
image
Format
b&w glass negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_b3725_G4169 ark:/21198/zz0002pngj
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Bribery--California--Los Angeles Witnesses--California--Los Angeles Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles Rettenger, John Keyes, Asa, 1877-1934
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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