Defendents Dave Getzoff and Ben Getzoff with defense attorney Al McDonald in a courtroom, Los Angeles, 1929

Item Overview

Title

Defendents Dave Getzoff and Ben Getzoff with defense attorney Al McDonald in a courtroom, Los Angeles, 1929

Date Created

1929

Date

1929

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Seated at the defense table in a courtroom, defense attorney Al McDonald (center) with defendants Dave Getzoff (left) and his father Ben Getzoff. The photo was taken at the time that the Getzoffs were indicted on the charge of conspiracy to give bribes in connection with attempts to dismiss charges against defendents in the Julian Petroleum Corporation stock overissue cases. Ben Getzoff was convicted; charges against Dave Getaoff were ulitmately dropped due to insufficient evidence to connect him to the plot. Dave worked in the tailor shop on Spring Street, owned by his father, Ben, where much of the bribery activity directed at district attorney Asa Keyes took place. Reported in "KEYES CASE HARD FOUGHT: Every Angla of Bribery Plot Trial in Which Three Were Convicted Bitterly Contested," Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 1930: 2.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: L to R Dave Getzoff / Al McDonald / Ben Getzoff
Text from negative sleeve: Getzoff, Ben & Dave. Bribery case.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w glass negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
glass plate negatives

Names

Getzoff, Ben, 1876-1936
McDonald, Al
Getzoff, Dave, 1900-1962

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles