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  • TitleBottle babies
  • Call NumberCRIM_0152
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryThree adolescent boys in precinct house hiding faces from photographer; assistant district attorney and stenographer seated before them; two witnesses to crime at right; two policemen standing next to boys. Caption: "'BOTTLE BABIES': While arresting officers Eugene Seifried, left, and Thomas Ross guard their teenage prisoners, victims Frank Fischetti and Michael DeChillo, right, give account of 70-cent Park Slope holdup to Assistant Distrct Attorney Jacob R. Evseroff, seated behind wine-bottle weapons. Stenographer, center, records story. The camera-shy prisoners, arrested with another juvenile, are, left to right, John Pitt, 18, and William Smith and Alan Foley, each 16."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Aug. 18, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorMcNamara, C. E.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectTeenage boys -- New York (State) -- New York ; Police -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public prosecutors -- New York (State) -- New York ; Stenographers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Crime -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Park Slope (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.