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Prince Ucon pretends to bite the bars of his jail cell, Lincoln Heights, 1936

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Title: Prince Ucon pretends to bite the bars of his jail cell, Lincoln Heights, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: January 31, 1936
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: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Prince Ucon, Algerian Wonder Worker, The Man Who Defies Death, proclaimed himself to be the toughest prisoner the jail has ever had and proceeded to show the officers present by eating a series of old keys, bullets, sticking safety pins through his cheeks and shaving with a blowtorch. Following his thirty day conviction he proclaimed to the court, "Judge, do I have to eat that jail food that long or can I have some bolts occasionally - I'm liable to start chewing on the bars unless they give me my iron."
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Razor Blade Menu Eaten," Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan 1936: A2.
From the inside of a cell Prince Ucon leans to the side and bites down on the bar of his cell door.
Handwritten on negative: 114 114 Prince Ucon - 1/22/36
Text from negative sleeve: 3460 - Ucon Prince Ucon Algerian Showman arrested for vagrancy "toughest man in Lincoln Heights jail" (see #3649) Actor 1/22/36 [stamped:] Jan 31 1936
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12431
ark:/21198/zz002hmfbt
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Stunt performers--California--Lincoln Heights
Prisoners--California--Lincoln Heights
Tramps--American--California--Lincoln Heights
Turbans--California--Lincoln Heights
Ucon, Prince, b. 1894
Lincoln Heights Jail
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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