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Interior decorator and check forger Ralph B. McMahon sits in courtroom, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Interior decorator and check forger Ralph B. McMahon sits in courtroom, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: October 19, 1935
1935-10-19
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.
Ralph B. McMahon, interior decorator and check forger, sits in courtroom in suit jacket and tie with a lit cigarette in his hand. McMahon looks to the side, his face with a few days' growth of facial hair. At McMahon's request, his lawyer petitioned the court to increase McMahon's bail. The forger wanted the safety of jail, to prevent himself from committing suicide.
Related to the article, "Escape from Trouble Sought in Prison Term" Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 1935
Handwritten on nitrate negative: Ralph B. McMahon, 10-19-35
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2631-- Ralph B. McMahon, 10-19-35, /interior decorator, arrested for forgery, [STAMPED:] OCT 29 1935
Photograph appears with the article, "Escape from Trouble Sought in Prison Term," Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 1935
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_9137
ark:/21198/zz002dh4xp
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Forgers
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
McMahon, Ralph B., b. ca. 1896
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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