Image / Detective Lieutenant Robert Underwood, Los Angeles, 1938

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Title: Detective Lieutenant Robert Underwood, Los Angeles, 1938
Date Created and/or Issued: February 17, 1938
1938-02-17
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
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: This photograph appears with the article "Pitched Battle Rages Around Barricaded Home of Killer of Two Officers," Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 1938: pg. 12.
Detective Lieutenant Robert Underwood in shootout with murderer George Farley. Underwood is aiming his rifle at Farley's home in Los Angeles.
Text from negative sleeve: Process Servers Killing. George Farley Eviction Case. April 38.
Text from newspaper caption: General view of battle scene at height of siege before police bullets wounded slayer and officers rushed cottage to capture gunman.
Type: image
Identifier: c1429_b3118_12827-2_6-30-1938
ark:/21198/zz002hjcw7
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Rifles
Detectives--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles
Underwood, Robert
Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Dept
Farley, George
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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