John Fraser searches through the rubble left from the bombing, Glendale, 1924

Item Overview

Title

John Fraser searches through the rubble left from the bombing, Glendale, 1924

Date Created

December 25, 1924

Date

1924-12-25

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Photograph appears with the article, "Arrest Looms in Bomb Outrage at Glendale," Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec 1924: A1.
Police search for the person who sent a grenade wrapped as a Christmas present to the home of Ernest M. Torchia at the home of he and his daughter Emily in Casa Verdugo. Torchia has sustained possibly fatal injuries.
Chief of Police Fraser leans on one knee examining the destruction of Torchia's home.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: TORCHIA, ERNEST M.
Text from newspaper caption: Attorney and Daughter Injured in Glendale Tragedy Above (left,) Ernest M. Torchia, attorney, whose body was torn and shattered as the result of a bomb explosion in his home yesterday morning. The bomb was sent through the mail, wrapped as a Christmas package. Above (right,) Emily Torchia, daughter of the attorney, in the room at the time of the explosion. She is shown being escorted to the hospital yesterday afternoon. Below, Chief of Police Fraser of Glendale examining contents of the room in which the explosion occurred.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Location

Glendale (Calif.)

Longitude

34.166355

Latitude

-118.251445

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Police--California--Glendale
Police chiefs--California--Glendale
Bombings--California--Glendale
Criminal investigations--California--Glendale