Arson suspect Robert D. Barr with lawyers Marcus Muskat and Lawrence Cobb, Los Angeles, 1933

Item Overview

Title

Arson suspect Robert D. Barr with lawyers Marcus Muskat and Lawrence Cobb, Los Angeles, 1933

Date Created

1933

Date

1933

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Related to the article “Inquest in Fire to Open Today, More Than Fifty Subpoenaed About Park Tragedy, Work Will Be Resumed by 6000 Welfare Men, Council and Supervisors Act on Liability Issue,” Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 1933. The article states: Trial Ordered for Man Facing Park Arson Charge. Accused of “starting his own fire” in Griffith Park on the 3rd inst. when he found out he was too late to assist in putting out the conflagration which took more than a score of lives, Robert D. Barr, unemployed film studio technician, yesterday was held for trial … defended by Attorneys Lawrence Cobb and Marcus Muskat. …
Robert D. Barr, between lawyers Marcus Muskat and Lawrence Cobb, all in suits and ties, in court or in office, seated at table with blotters and hat

Caption

Handwritten at edge of negative: Lawrence Cobb, Robert Barr, Marcus Muskat
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Barr, Robert, Arson case?, 1933

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Barr, Robert D., b. ca. 1904
Cobb, Lawrence C., 1894-1945
Muskat, Marcus Charles, 1908-1982

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Arson investigation--California--Los Angeles County
Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Fire, 1933
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Fires--California--Los Angeles