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Title: Poker chips taken in raid, Santa Catalina Island
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1979
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Closeup view of dice and poker chips taken in a raid at an alleged gambling den run by Sam Kardenski and John M. Hall, in Avalon on Santa Catalina Island. A gun was alleged to have been discovered in the dealer's drawer. Prosecution introduced the paraphernalia as evidence as having been seized in the raid. This case is said to be the first of its kind to be heard in Superior Court and a test case as to whether conspiracy can be found in alleged violation of gambling laws. Photo dated: July 24, 1929.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00039670
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1065.
CARL0000043325
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/15231
Subject: Gambling--California--Santa Catalina Island
Gambling and crime--California--Santa Catalina Island
Santa Catalina Island (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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