Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. This image appears in the photo spread, "Nation Sorrows As Gene Stratton Porter is Laid to Rest," Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 1924: A12 From left to right, Harry Pollock (Kid McCoy's former manager) and Tom Kennedy (Kid McCoy's sparring partner) sit side-by-side in the courtroom's gallery during McCoy's trial. They both hold their hats on their laps as they gaze towards the right. Kid McCoy (nee Norman Selby) was on trial for the murder of Teresa Mors. Text from newspaper caption: They Knew the Kid When-- Harry Pollock was twenty years McCoy's manager and Tom Kennedy was his sparring partner, and they sat together yesterday and watched what may be his last fight in his trial for the murder of Teresa Mors. (Times photo.) [Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 1924: A12] Handwritten text from negative sleeve: McCoy, Kid boxer - murder 1924
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_6476 ark:/21198/zz002cwpxx
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Boxers (Sports)--California--Los Angeles Courtrooms--California--Los Angeles Spectators--California--Los Angeles Homicides--California--Los Angeles Actors--American--California--Los Angeles Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles McCoy, Kid, 1873-1940--Trials, litigation, etc Mors, Teresa, 1892 or 93-1924 Kennedy, Tom, 1885-1965 Pollock, Harry
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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