Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph appears with the article, "Error Killed By Police to be Aired at Inquest," Los Angeles Times, 12 July 1935: A1. Shortly after an altercation with wrestling promoter Lou Daro 35-year-old William Focher was shot by police officers after they had confused him for a bandit. After several hours of being treated at the hospital he died. Text from negative sleeve: 1147 - J.E. Chase (Radio officer 798) T.R. Welch (Radio officer 348) Shooting of Focher 9/11/35 [stamped:] Jul 17 1935 Text from newspaper caption: Radio Officers J. E. Chase, left, and T. R. Welch who fired shots that felled William Focher, after the latter's alteration with Lou Daro, wrestling promoter. Handwritten on negative: T.R. Welch 348 J.E. Chase 798
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image
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b&w nitrate negative
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uclamss_1429_7456 ark:/21198/zz002df4z9
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No linguistic content
Subject
Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles Police shootings--California--Los Angeles Police--California--Los Angeles Chase, J. E Welch, Theodore Roosevelt, 1898-1992
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