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
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OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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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
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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
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Subjects
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Judges--California
Lawyers--California
Los Angeles Aqueduct (Calif.) - Names
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Hession, Jess, 1886-1950
Dehy, William, b. 1869 or 1870 - Location
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Inyo County (Calif.)
Owens Valley (Calif.) - Resource type
- still image
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- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
- uclamss_1429_9456
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dhhx0
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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