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. Tillie Irwin recounts when she called the Southern County Bank to speak to Ruth Bruton when she heard gunshots on the other end of the line, alerting fellow reporter Lawrence Butterfield before the police were notified, ending in a violent shootout. Photograph appears with the article, "El Monte Girl Reporter Tells Of Bandit Killing," Los Angeles Times, 01 Feb. 1936: 3. Lawrence Butterfield holds a cigarette in one hand and poses with his arm around Tillie Irwin as she holds a pen and writing pad. Handwritten on negative: Lawrence Butterfield Tillie Irwine 1-31-36 Text from newspaper caption: Lawrence Butterfield, left, and Miss Tillie Irwin, newspaper reporters, who sounded alarm after Miss Irwin's telephone conversation with a friend in the bank was halted by a scream and the crash of glass. Text from negative sleeve: 3532 - 2/11/36 Lawrence Butterfield Tillie Irwine Guns - in Robbery El Monte Bank Robbery 2-1-36
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12547 ark:/21198/zz002hmkbr
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Reporters--American--California--Los Angeles Butterfield, Lawrence, b. 1909 Irwin, Tillie, (Reporter)
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