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Mrs. Eleanor Quinn discovered smuggled guns buried in her backyard, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Mrs. Eleanor Quinn discovered smuggled guns buried in her backyard, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: March 13, 1936
1936-03-13
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.
Mrs. Quinn deliverd a testimony against former convict and tenant of her home at 9122 South Hoover Street Edward Freeman, who frequently threatened her and is said to be the owner of the illegal firearms, planning to smuggle them to inmates of Folsom State Prison.
Photograph appears with the article, "Ex-Convict Tied to Guns," Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar 1936: 7.
Behind the witness stand Mrs. Quinn extracts the guns from the container that was found in her backyard.
Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Eleanor Quinn displaying guns said to have been found buried in her back yard and which she said were to be sold to convicts for a Folsom Prison break.
Handwritten on negative: Mrs Eleanor Quinn
Text from negative sleeve: 4449 - Mrs. Eleanor Quinn (found in her backyard) Smuggled Guns - [stamped:] Mar 25 1936
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13631
ark:/21198/zz002hnvr8
Language: English
Subject: Illegal arms transfers
Firearms
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Quinn, Eleanor
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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