Subject: Prisoners--California--Lincoln Heights - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Franklin Austin, in street clothes, leans against a doorframe. His arms are crossed, one hand holding a cigarette up to his mouth. To his right is a door handle. Reported in "Paroled Lifer Faced by Gaol: Murderer May be Sent Back to Folsom," Los Angeles Times, 7 Jul. 1925: A3.
Date:: [circa July 1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Prince Ucon, Algerian Wonder Worker, The Man Who Defies Death, proclaimed himself to be the toughest prisoner the jail has ever had and proceeded to show the officers present by eating a series of old keys, bullets, sticking safety pins through his cheeks and shaving with a blowtorch. Following his thirty day conviction he proclaimed to the court, "Judge, do I have to eat that jail food that long or can I have some bolts occasionally - I'm liable to start chewing on the bars unless they give me my iron."
Date:: February 13, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Prince Ucon, Algerian Wonder Worker, The Man Who Defies Death, proclaimed himself to be the toughest prisoner the jail has ever had and proceeded to show the officers present by eating a series of old keys, bullets, sticking safety pins through his cheeks and shaving with a blowtorch. Following his thirty day conviction he proclaimed to the court, "Judge, do I have to eat that jail food that long or can I have some bolts occasionally - I'm liable to start chewing on the bars unless they give me my iron."
Date:: January 31, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Prince Ucon, Algerian Wonder Worker, The Man Who Defies Death, proclaimed himself to be the toughest prisoner the jail has ever had and proceeded to show the officers present by eating a series of old keys, bullets, sticking safety pins through his cheeks and shaving with a blowtorch. Following his thirty day conviction he proclaimed to the court, "Judge, do I have to eat that jail food that long or can I have some bolts occasionally - I'm liable to start chewing on the bars unless they give me my iron."
Date:: January 31, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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