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Coroner Frank Monfort and E. Carl Yates, Jr., son of slain bank robber, El Monte, 1936

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Title: Coroner Frank Monfort and E. Carl Yates, Jr., son of slain bank robber, El Monte, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: February 4, 1936
1936-02-04
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.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Frank F. Smith was arrested for the robbery of the El Monte bank that killed his two accomplices, Clarence Henry Smith and Emory Carl Yates, and blew off the finger of Officer Joseph Fritsch.
This photograph is likely related to the article, "Bank Bandit Fight Told," Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb 1936: A8.
Yates, right, sits at the witness stand beside Dep. Coroner Frank Monfort, left, at the coroner's jury.
Handwritten on negative: Carl Yates Jr. son of slain bank bandit 2-4-36
Text from negative sleeve: 3532 -- 2/8/36 Carl Yates Jr Son Slain Bank Bandit 2-4-36
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12550
ark:/21198/zz002hmkf9
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Courtrooms--California--El Monte
Judicial proceedings--California--El Monte
Coroners--California--Los Angeles
Yates, Emry Carl, Jr., 1915-1984
Monfort, Frank, 1876-1966
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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