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Title: Thomas Dugger being questioned by detectives, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Detectives and Captain questioning Thomas Dugger about picture. Thomas Dugger was convicted of 11 felonies and ultimately hung for his crimes in San Quentin. He was convicted of mainly assaulting women, and his nick name was "ape man" because of his shoulders and gnarled hands and black eyes.
L to R-- Handwritten on negative: Capt Bert Wallis, Dt. lt. Sanderson, Dt. Lt. Giese, Thomas E Dugger (seated)
Text from negative sleeve: WALLACE, HUBERT J. CAPT. POLICE, 1935
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4444
ark:/21198/zz002cq7mr
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Criminals--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles
Questioning--California--Los Angeles
Detectives--California--Los Angeles
Giese, Ray
Wallis, Bert, 1880-1959
Sanderson, Leroy E
Dugger, Thomas Edward
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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