About This Item
- TitleChased by vigilantes
- Call NumberCRIM_0120
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryCaption: "Chased by vigilantes--Three bandit suspects, George Gibson, sitting center, and Bernard Thompson and Mahlon Stewart, standing behing Gibson, are fingered by Dan Giordano, owner of a Greenpoint bar, and his nephew, Joseph Giordano, proprietor of a liquor store, as the men who held them up. The two patrolmen who nabbed the trio are Constantine Painus, standing, at right, and Francis Mittledorf, sitting, of the Herbert St. Precinct. Patrolman Joseph Addamo and Patrolman Kenneth Alnurck look on." Note: All of the suspects are African American men.
- Date1955
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 210 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
- NoteStamped on verso: date: Jan. 24, 1955; "Brooklyn Eagle;" "Photo by C. E. McNamara." Title from caption on verso.
- CreatorMcNamara, C. E.
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectAfrican American men -- New York (State) -- New York ; Police -- New York (State) -- New York ; Robbery -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- 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.