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. J. K. Fronk stands between two unidentified men and in front of a train car. All three men are wearing brimmed hats and coats and are photographed from waist up. 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. Handwritten on negative sleeve: Fronk, J. H., parole officer
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_4777 ark:/21198/zz002ctpb7
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Criminals--California--Los Angeles Fraud--California--Los Angeles Parole officers--California--Los Angeles Fronk, J. K. (John K.), 1888-1932
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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