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. A different photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Bank Bandit Fight Told," Los Angeles Times, 05 Feb 1936: A8. 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. Frank F. Smith, standing in the center, appears in court regarding the robbery of Southern County Bank in El Monte. Text from negative sleeve: 3532 - Frank F. Smith Joseph Fritsch F. J. Mountain Bank Bandit 2-4-36 2/8/36 Handwritten on negative: Frank F Smith 2-4-36
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12566 ark:/21198/zz002hmm02
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles Robberies--California--El Monte Smith, Frank Forrest, 1891-1970
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