Worth S. Fitts, Marion Fitts, and Buron Fitts after perjury acquittal, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: Worth S. Fitts, Marion Fitts, and Buron Fitts after perjury acquittal, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: February 7, 1936
Date: 1936-02-07
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Buron Fitts gives his wife Marion a kiss to celebrate a successful trial. Fitts’ father, Worth, stands to Marion’s right.
On February 7, 1936, District Attorney Buron Fitts was acquitted of perjury regarding a 1931 testimony over the sale of a Claremont orange grove. Mrs. Berthall Gregory, Fitts’ sister, sold the grove to Lucien C. Wheeler. Fitts reportedly falsified the amount of money he received through the sale. The perjury trial lasted three weeks.
This photograph is possibly related to the article, “Jurors Acquit Fitts of Perjury Charges,’ Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb 1936: 1-2.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Buron Fitts + wife + father after trial 2-7-36
Text from negative sleeve: 3268 --- 2/11/36 Buron Fitts, Mrs Buron Fitts, Jerry Geisler, W M Simpson, Bobby “, Mrs W M “, Roy Keane, Mrs Chas Phillips, Fits Jury Comes in with verdict 2-7-36

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973
Fitts, Marion, 1893-1985
Fitts, Worth Stickley, 1871-1969
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Spouses--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_12155
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002h853v
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