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. Von Brincken's full name is Baron Wilhelm Ferdinand von Brincken. He first came to the United States as a diplomat prior to World War I. When the Great War broke out he was arrested and imprisoned at McNeil Island federal prison in Washington. After his released he became an American citizen and dropped his title. He began working in the film industry in the 1920s, and from 1925 on used the first name "William". This photograph is related to the article, "Baron Quizzed on Shot; Bullet 'Fired at Him' Came From Own Gun, Say Police to Bewilderment of Titled Writer," Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 1933: A1. Photograph of a hand holding William Von Brincken's gun that police tested and discovered had been used to shoot his car, after he claimed the bullet had been fired by bandits. The Brinckens reported to police that they had been robbed at gunpoint, twice threatened with assault and then involved in a gun battle over a week's time with a gang of men. Police eventually determined none of those events had occurred. William Brincken was convicted and fined for filing a false police report. Text from negative sleeve: Von Brincken, William Baron, 1932 Handwritten on negative: Baron Von Brincken's gun
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_4371 ark:/21198/zz002cq531
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles Von Brincken, William, 1881-1946
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