District Attorney Jess Hession and Judge William M. Dehy, Inyo County, 1927

Item Overview

Title

District Attorney Jess Hession and Judge William M. Dehy, Inyo County, 1927

Date Created

[September 1927]

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Jess Hession, District attorney for Inyo County (left), and William Dehy, a Superior Court judge of Inyo County, most likely examining literature related to the Watterson brothers embezzlement case.
Related to the article, "Shift in judges made for Wattersons' trial," Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 1927: A1.
A different photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Bank crash case before court," Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 1927: A1.
Jess Hession and Judge Dehy worked on the Watterson brothers embezzlement case before Dehy disqualified himself. Wilfred W. Watterson and Mark Q. Watterson, members of the Owens Valley Irrigation District board of directors, were charged with 34 counts of embezzlement.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: Jess Hession, Judge Wm Dehy
Handwritten on negative sleeve: Inyo County District Atty.
Text from negative sleeve: Hession, Jess

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Judges--California
Lawyers--California
Los Angeles Aqueduct (Calif.)

Names

Hession, Jess, 1886-1950
Dehy, William, b. 1869 or 1870

Location

Inyo County (Calif.)
Owens Valley (Calif.)

Resource type

still image