J. O. Shapiro, Paul McDonald, Harry Regan, Everett J. Randall, Jack Armel, and James Mitchell are held in custody on charges of racketeering, Los Angeles, 1936
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
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph appears with the article, "Nine Seized in Raid on Numbers Racket," Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb 1936: A1. Shapiro shields his eyes with his hand, holding his hat in his lap. McDonald sits with his hands folded in his lap, looking into the camera's lens. Regan slouches in his chair and obscures his face with a paper while Randall reads the newspaper in his lap. Armel and Mitchell read another newspaper, covering their mouths with handkerchiefs. Nine men were arrested from a downtown office for varying the famed numbers racket that had been operated for years in New York and other eastern cities by the late "Dutch" Schultz. Text from newspaper caption: Following a raid on an asserted numbers racket yesterday, five of the suspects were questioned in the District Attorney's office. Left to right, Jack Armel, Everett J. Randall, Harry Regan, Paul McDonald and J. O. Shapiro. The men were arrested in a downtown office building by Capt. Clyde Plummer and his vice squad. Handwritten on negative: Jo Shapiro Paul McDonald Harry Regan Everett J. Randall, Jack Armel James Mitchell Text from negative sleeve: 3506 - Jo Shapiro .- Paul McDonald Harry Regan Everett J. Randall Jack Armel James Mitchell Racetrack Racket.} defendants [stamped:] Mar 4 1936
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12497 ark:/21198/zz002hmhmx
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Police raids--California--Los Angeles Law enforcement--California--Los Angeles Armel, Jack, 1911-1991 Shapiro, J.O. (Joe Shapiro) Mitchell, James Regan, Harry Randall, Everett J., 1895-1974 McDonald, Paul
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