Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. In August of 1927, the wealthy President of the Rothschild Mortgage and Finance Company, Jacob Goldstein, was charged with murdering his business associate Frederick A. Stern. Goldstein initially claimed to have killed Stern in self defense, but eventually pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter, and was sent to San Quentin prison. He was paroled in 1933, and left California for New York. Photograph misfiled and scanned with photographs from the 1933 Los Angeles Open. Description.note: This photograph appears with the article, "Goldstein gets term in prison: Rich Man Pleads Guilty to Killing, Stern Sentence Given on Charge of Manslaughter, Slayer Will be Taken to San Quentin Soon," Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug 1927: A5 Text from negative sleeve: Goldstein, Jacob. Text from newspaper caption: Jacob Goldstein.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_4958 ark:/21198/zz002ctwkr
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Business people--American--California--Los Angeles Trials--California--Los Angeles Goldstein, Jacob, 1871-
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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