About This Item

  • Call NumberCRIM_0066
  • TitleAccused shakedown artists face law
  • SummaryCaption: "Accused shakedown artists face law--Arrested as alleged extortionists who blackmailed doctors on threat they would be arrested as abortionists, Robert Maloney, Bruno Makan, Doris Aviron, and Robert Murphy, left to right, are booked at Elizabeth St. Station, Manhattan. Murphy and Makan, both Brooklynites, posed as cops, real cops said."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 7 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Sep[t] 28, 1954; "Brooklyn Eagle." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCriminals -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Crime: General