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TITLE Police Captain Earle E. Kynette sits in court after being charged with conspiracy to commit murder, Los Angeles, 1938 DATE CREATED February 1938 DATE 1938-02 PUBLISHER Los Angeles Daily News LANGUAGE No linguistic content COLLECTION Los Angeles Daily News Negatives Notes DESCRIPTION Captain of Police Earle E. Kynette was charged with conspiracy to commit murder after the vehicle of Harry J. Raymond was bombed on January 14, 1938. Kynette was in charge of a special police intelligence unit that had been conducting surveillance on Raymond’s home from a nearby bungalow. Before the car bombing, Raymond had been conducting investigative work on Mayor Shaw and his possible connections with illegal gambling. Two other officers, Fred Browne and Roy J. Allen, connected with the intelligence unit were also charged with conspiracy to commit murder. However, Fred Browne was eventually acquitted. Kynette and Allen were both found guilty. CAPTION Text from original nitrate sleeve: Earle Kynette. Physical Description EXTENT 1 photograph MEDIUM b&w nitrate negative Keywords GENRE news photographs cellulose nitrate film NAMES Kynette, Earle E. LOCATION Los Angeles (Calif.) RESOURCE TYPE still image SUBJECTS Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles People Crime Police--California--Los Angeles Legal Find This Item REPOSITORY University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections ARK ark:/21198/zz0027z9d3 MANIFEST URL IIIF Manifest Access Condition RIGHTS STATEMENT copyrighted RIGHTS HOLDER UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988 RIGHTS COUNTRY US FUNDING NOTE Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. LICENSE

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