Coroner Frank Nance listens to testimony from Roland West at the grand jury hearings into death of actress Thelma Todd, December 18, 1935

Title: Coroner Frank Nance listens to testimony from Roland West at the grand jury hearings into death of actress Thelma Todd, December 18, 1935
Date Created: December 18, 1935
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: West testifies at grand jury hearings to determine Todd’s cause of death. Todd was found in the garage of film director West, her business partner and lover, dead from carbon monoxide poisoning. Nance was Los Angeles Country Coroner 1921-1945. Todd's death was eventually ruled an accident.
Caption: Text from archival nitrate sleeve: West, Roland; Nance, Frank, coroner
Text from original nitrate sleeve: West, Roland; Nance, Frank, Coroner.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Coroner Frank Nance, Roland West, 12,521

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Subjects: Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
People
Grand juries
Legal
Motion picture producers & directors--American--California--Los Angeles
Names: Todd, Thelma, 1905-1935
Nance, Frank A. (Frank Albert), 1875-1950
West, Roland, 1885-1952
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1387_12521-02
12521
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002552c2
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