Hend in $50,000,000 policy racket

Hend in $50,000,000 policy racket
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Title: Hend in $50,000,000 policy racket
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Caption: "Held in $50,000,000 policy racket--Booked in Elizabeth S . Station, Manhattan, as operators of far-spreading numbers game are (front line, left to right), Martin Martinson, Abraham Goldberg, Jack Feldman, Irving Blitz, and Edward Kane, with Emilio Strollo behind Kane. Detectives in background are watching the booking ceremony."

Date: 1949
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched.
On verso: date stamped: Jul[y] 26, 1949; on caption: "Eagle staff photo."
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Crime
Subject: Bookmakers
Detectives
Gambling and crime
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Portraits.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library.
ID: CRIM 0041