C.C. Julian, fugitive, riding in rickshaw, China, 1935
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds., Text from negative sleeve: 2128, C.C. Julian, (Copy ?), in China, 9-14-35, [stamped:] Sep 18 1935, Handwritten on negative: Last Photo, C C Julian in China, 9-14-35, Image appears with no caption with the article "The Last Days of C. C. Julian," Los Angeles Times, 29 Sept. 1935, as the first installment of a two part story. Second installment printed 6 Oct. 1935., View of a photo of C.C. Julian riding in rickshaw in suit, tie, and hat, hands clasped in lap. Unidentified man pulling rickshaw, and two unidentified men in background. C.C. Julian was a Canadian who came to Los Angeles in the 1920's and founded the Julian Petroleum Corporation, an oil drilling company. Suspected for cooking the books and watering stocks, Julian sold the company to Sheridan C. Lewis who continued to swindle investors, and the fraud is now known as the great "Julian Petroleum Scandal." Julian eventually went bankrupt and was indicted for mail fraud. He fled to Shanghai where he continued to slip into poverty and finally committed suicide in 1934.