Clothes for Brown Leaves, 1927

“Albert and Baltazar Negrite, aged 9 and 10, are shown with George Contreras, Detective Chief of the District Attorney’s Office. Boys are wearing new clothes purchase for them after Contreras had found them in destitute circumstance upon investigating charges that they were selling dope. He found that the boys were not aware that the “brown leaves” in their possession were marijuana.”



Albert and Baltazar Negrite, aged 9 and 10, are shown with George Contreras, Detective Chief of the District Attorney’s Office. Photo dated: October 27, 1927