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
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Thomas and Penney stand in the courtroom with their hands behind their backs. Former Redondo Beach school superintendent Elliot B. Thomas has been sentenced to serve one to fourteen years at San Quentin Penitentiary for the forgery of pay vouchers drawn against the County Treasury. He has misappropriated approximately $10,000. Photograph appears with the article, "Thomas Given Prison Term," Los Angeles Times, 08 Nov 1932: A3. Handwritten on negative: LtR George Penney + Elliott B. Thomas Text from negative sleeve: THOMAS, ELLIOTT B. KIDNAP CASE, [stamped:] 1932 Text from newspaper caption: Listening to Sentence Elliot B. Thomas, right, standing beside his attorney, George Penney, while judge sentences former school head for forgery.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_3764 ark:/21198/zz002cpf5g
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Forgeries Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles School superintendents--California--Los Angeles Criminals--California--Los Angeles Lawyers--California--Los Angeles Penney, George, b. 1897 or 98 Thomas, Elliot Boal, b. 1896-1981
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