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Chief liquor control officer Merle Templeton with his attorney Richard H. Sampson at the liquor license bribe trial, Oct 1939 - May 1940

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Title: Chief liquor control officer Merle Templeton with his attorney Richard H. Sampson at the liquor license bribe trial, Oct 1939 - May 1940
Date Created and/or Issued: between October 24, 1939 and May 29, 1940
1939-10-24/1940-05-29
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Chief liquor control officer Merle Templeton (right) and his attorney, Richard H. Sampson at the liquor license bribe trial. Templeton is accused of involvement in a liquor license bribe scandal in which he allegedly conspired with at least six others to extort money from liquor retailers under threat of causing them to lose their liquor license
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Richard H. SampsonMerle Templeton
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Bonelli, William G.; Templeton, Merle; Rose, A. Brigham; Levine, Ed; Hughes, Hal; Mackay, Donald; Cook, Wm. J.; Huntsman, Ray
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz0025gvgr
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Bribery--California--Los Angeles
Criminals--California--Los Angeles
Crime
Legal
Business
Sampson, Richard H
Templeton, Merle
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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