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. Photograph of Charles Griffen looking through drawers filled with cards for an investigation. The cards are indexed with the names of those who placed telegraphic bets on races. Griffen is standing in the photograph and wears a suit and tie. The open drawers sit on a desk, and in the background there is a closed door. This photograph appears with the article, “TRACK LINK IN TIPSTER RAID FOUND: Women Quizzed by Officials ‘Sucker’ Card Index Hints Bets Wired to Tanforan Source of List,” Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 1936: 1. Text from newspaper caption: Charles Griffen, District Attorney’s investigator, is shown with part of the files of 10,000 names in the so-called sucker lists found in a raid on an asserted race track tipsters’ office. The set-up is being investigated by both Federal and county authorities. Handwritten on negative: Charles Griffen 3/28/36. Text from negative sleeve: 4577—Mrs Vera Fields, Mrs Willa Mae Newman, Patricia Douglas, Charles Griffen w/ “sucker lists”, asst chief of Buron Fitt’s DA investigation bureau, Race Track Story 3/28/36. [Stamped:] APR 1 1936.
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13770 ark:/21198/zz002j77cx
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Investigation--California--Los Angeles Evidence (law) Detectives--California--Los Angeles Griffin, Charles J., 1891-1972
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