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. Frank F. Smith refuses to testify in the case charging him with the robbery of the El Monte bank that killed his two accomplices and blew off the finger of Officer Joseph Fritsch, but he is acting as his own attorney in questioning witnesses. Smith sits between a standing bank manager F. J. Mountain and Officer Fritsch, sporting a heavily bandaged hand. Photograph appears with the article, "Bank Bandit Fight Told," Los Angeles Times, 05 Feb 1936: A8. Handwritten on negative: L2R Joseph Fritsch x Frank F. Smith x F. J. Mountain 2-4-36 Text from negative sleeve: 3532 - Frank F. Smith Joseph Fritsch F. J. Mountain Bank Bandit 2-4-36 2/8/36 Text from newspaper caption: At the inquest over the two bank robbers slain in the El Monte bank hold-up battle, three of the principal figures in the drama met face to face again. They are shown, left to right, Joseph Fritsch, officer whose finger was shot off by bandit gunfire; Frank Smith, survivor of the hold-up trio captured in the act, and F. J. Mountain, manager of the bank.
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12564 ark:/21198/zz002hmkxj
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Bandages Police--California--El Monte Judicial proceedings--California--El Monte Criminals--California--El Monte Robberies--California--El Monte Smith, Frank Forrest, 1891-1970 Mountain, F. J
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