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 Haynes Foundation funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. William Smetter and ten others were arrested on racketeering charges involving the Santa Anita racetrack. The illegal gambling practice was run from a number of offices in Los Angeles as well as offices in New York and other east coast states. This photograph is possibly related to the article, "Game's Lure Told Court," Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 1936: A3. William Smetter sits in a chair smoking a cigar. Handwritten on negative: Wm Smetter Text from negative sleeve: 3506 --- Wm Smetter - one of defendants, Race Track Racket [stamped:] MAR 4 1936
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12498 ark:/21198/zz002hmhnf
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles Gambling and crime Police raids--California Smetter, William
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