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| "Policeman James Boland and friends" (San Francisco Public Library). The man to Boland's right looks a bit like Herbert Asbury. |
Asbury listed police Lieutenant James Boland among those he thanked as sources for his book The Barbary Coast. A year after the book was published, Boland would be acting chief, overseeing a hunger strike by political prisoners in the aftermath of the 1934 general strike.
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| "Acting Police Chief James Boland showing a gun" to Mayor Rossi and other members of a "crime commission." (San Francisco Public Library) |
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