Dueling challenger W. P. Blake, Los Angeles, 1933

Item Overview

Title

Dueling challenger W. P. Blake, Los Angeles, 1933

Date Created

1933

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

W. P. Blake, in a courtroom in suit and tie, pencil in pocket, with one artificial eye, standing at desk or table, gesturing with right hand, left hand on large reference book with thumb indexes, with 2 empty chairs at left
This photograph appears with the article “Trial on Anti-Dueling Law Charge Brings Conviction of Inventor Accused by Attorney, Duel Seeker Found Guilty, Verdict Carries Possibility of San Quentin Term, Request for Meeting with Pistols Sent Plaintiff, Defendant Denounces State Ban on Such Conflict.” Los Angeles Times, 17 June 1933: A2. The article states: … W.P. Blake, 53-year-old inventor, was … convicted … of challenging another person to a duel. The charge was brought against Blake by Herman Miller … who asserts he received a challenge from Blake to meet him in Griffith Park, there to fight a duel. … Two guns, exactly similar in appearance, were to be provided, one loaded, the other empty. Miller was to have his choice of the two weapons and the man who received the unloaded weapon was expected to die. … Blake … admitted writing the challenge but … believed it was the only way he could obtain justice. ...

Caption

Handwritten at edge of negative: W.P. Blake
Text from newspaper caption: Challenge Brings Prison Prospect. W.P. Blake. Defendant convicted of violation of anti-dueling law following trial with attorney as accuser.
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Blake, W.P., Dueling charge, 193[3]

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Dueling--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles

Names

Blake, W. P., b. 1879 or 80

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image