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Captain Robert F. Underwood and Detective Lieutenant Richard B. McCreadie break down a door, Los Angeles, 1939

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Title: Captain Robert F. Underwood and Detective Lieutenant Richard B. McCreadie break down a door, Los Angeles, 1939
Date Created and/or Issued: January 13, 1939
1939-01-13
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.
Captain Underwood holds a shotgun while Det. Lt. McCreadie kicks at the door with his foot, smoking a cigar.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Lodger Who Barricaded Room Held For Observation," Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan 1939: A16.
Charles Clark owed $100 in back rent to his landlord Sylvia Rymarzick and barricaded himself in his living quarters, posting a note on the door saying he would kill anyone who tried to enter. Underwood and McCreadie broke into the room to find it empty and apprehended Clark when he returned.
Handwritten on negative: 37 L2R Det Lt Robt Underwood Det Lt RJ Mac Creadie 1-13-39
Text from negative sleeve: 15344 Det. Robert Underwood + Lt. R.J. MacReadie -> "psych.detail" (police breaking into apt of Charles Clark, unemployed carpenter, who barricaded self in w/note on door) 1/13/39
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14752
ark:/21198/zz002j8d7q
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Police--California--Los Angeles
Rifles
McCreadie, Richard B
Underwood, Robert F., (Captain)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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