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Bell County, Texas, Sheriff John Bigham and embezzling suspect Arthur B. Crouch, Los Angeles, 1929

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Title: Bell County, Texas, Sheriff John Bigham and embezzling suspect Arthur B. Crouch, Los Angeles, 1929
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929
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.
Arthur B. Crouch was known in Helensville, New Zealand as John Grey or "Honest John."
A similar photograph appears with the article “Past Rises Up to Smite Him, Honest John Grey, Soul of Integrity and Business Leader in New Zealand Town, Passes Through City on Way to Face Old Embezzling Charge in Temple, Tex.” Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 1929. Caption reads: “Thirteen Year Hunt Comes to End. Sheriff Bigham and A.B. Crouch (John Grey)”
John Bigham, in suit, tie, and hat, with cigarette, and Arthur B. Crouch, in suit and tie, both leaning on rail
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Bigham, Sheriff
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: 0982
uclamss_1429_0982
ark:/21198/zz002dbc0v
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: People
Government
Sheriffs--California--Los Angeles
Crime
Legal
Crouch, Arthur Buford, b. 1881
Bigham, John R., 1877-9152
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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