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Violent thief Robert T. Fletcher sits outside courtroom smoking cigarette, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Violent thief Robert T. Fletcher sits outside courtroom smoking cigarette, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: October 21, 1935
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.
Related to article, "Victims Face Youth Accused of Brutal Bandit Career: Slugging Robber Suspect Indicted On Four Counts." Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 1935
Teenager and violent thief, Robert T. Fletcher, has a smoke as he sits on a wooden bench outside the courtroom. A man and woman and be blurrily seen in the background to the left. Fletcher wears a zippered gingham jacket, white shirt, and loose tie. Fletcher was at trial for attacking and then stealing from women victims. He would assault the women by punching them and taking their valuables as they were incapacitated.
Handwritten on nitrate negative: Robert T. Fletcher, 10-21-35
Text from newspaper caption: Robert T. Fletcher
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2646-- Robert T. Fletcher - 18 yrs, Robbery Suspect
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_9150
ark:/21198/zz002dh5cw
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Violence--California--Los Angeles
Abused women--California--Los Angeles
Robberies--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings
Criminals--California--Los Angeles
Fletcher, Robert T. b. ca. 1918
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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