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Title: Reverend Ethel Duncan arrested for tax evasion, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: December 21, 1935
1935-12-21
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.
Reverend Duncan sits at a desk as her lawyer Richard Cautillon leans over and points to a document in front of her.
Similar photograph appears with the article, ""Evangelist Booked On Tax Charge," Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec 1935: A12.
Radio evangelist Reverend Ethel Duncan was arrested on federal charges of income tax evasion, which was filed against she and ex-husband Lloyd M. Prewitt for failing to file a return on their 1931 gross income of $86, 000.
Text from negative sleeve: 4281 - (Rev.) Ethel Duncan - radio broadcasts Richard Cautillon (lawyer) (Income Tax Evasion) -> w/husband Lloyd M. Prewitt 12/?/35 [stamped:] Dec 31 1935
Handwritten on negative: Ethel Duncan Richard Cautillon
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13344
ark:/21198/zz002hnhtg
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Taxes--California--Los Angeles
Evangelists
Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Crimes--California--Los Angeles
Duncan, Ethel, b. 1894
Cautillon, Richard, Lawyer
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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