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
This photograph appears in "Fronk Bankers to Tell Story," Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb 1926: 9. J. K. Fronk, parole officer, sits in a wooden chair on a raised wooden platform, posing for a photograph in a three piece suit. He has his feet splayed in front of him, leaning forward slightly, resting his left hand on his knee and his right arm on his thigh. He holds a paper in his right hand. He is staring forwards from his position, unsmiling. A calendar from presumably 1926 hangs on the wall behind him. J. K. Fronk, parole officer, was arrested, along with Orison R. Ruddy, bookkeeper, and L. A. Landon, bank manager, for writing bad checks and swindling over $300,000 from 8 banks. He was convicted and sentenced to 10 years, of which he served 4 1/2 years before being paroled in 1931. He then violated his parole and disappeared, and was found dead in Omaha, Nebraska in 1932. Text accompanying photograph in newspaper: His Wizardry Under Scrutiny, J. K. Fronk Handwritten on negative sleeve: Fronk, J. H., parole officer Handwritten on negative: J. K. Fronk
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_4776 ark:/21198/zz002ctp9q
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Parole officers--California--Los Angeles Fraud--California--Los Angeles Criminals--California--Los Angeles Fronk, J. K. (John K.), 1888-1932
Source
OpenUCLA Collections Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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