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. This photograph appears with the article, “WOMAN AIDE AND BANDITS’ HEAD HUNTED: Gang Linked to Many Hold-ups Survivor in El Monte Gun Battle Reported to Have Confessed to Six,” Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 1936: 1. Photograph of Robert Bruce Hunter looking at Frank F. Smith as Frank holds his glasses and smokes a cigarette. They appear to be in an office, and behind them there is a large map on the wall that says in English, “Map of Los Angeles County California”. Text from newspaper caption: Frank F. Smith, right, confessed bank robber captured in Friday’s gun battle at El Monte, is identified by Robert Bruce Hunter, left, as one of the three bank robbers who last fall robbed the Santa Monica bank of which Hunter is manager. Two companions of Smith were slain in an attempted bank robbery at El Monte. Text from negative sleeve: 3532—Alice Williams, Josephine Littlefield, Ruth Bruton, Mrs Frank Smith, R Bruce Hunter, Frank F. Smith, El Monte Bank Robbery, 1-31-36. [Stamped:] FEB 4 1936. Handwritten on negative: L2R R Bruce Hunter, Frank F. Smith 1-31-36.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12543 ark:/21198/zz002hmk6p
Language
English
Subject
Bankers--California--Los Angeles Criminals--California--Los Angeles Hunter, Robert Bruce, 1903-1965 Smith, Frank Forrest, 1891-1970
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