Clyde C. Shoemaker and key witness Lucien C. Wheeler at Buron Fitts perjury trial, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: Clyde C. Shoemaker and key witness Lucien C. Wheeler at Buron Fitts perjury trial, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: January 27, 1936
Date: 1936-01-27
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: In January 1936, District Attorney Buron Fitts was charged with 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 falsely testified the amount of money he received through the sale. He was prosecuted by Clyde C. Shoemaker and defended by Jerry Giesler, Joseph Scott, and William E. Scott with Winthrop O. Gordon as the attorney aid.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 3268--- 2/2/36 L 2 R Jerry Giesler, Clyde Shoemaker, Lucien C. Wheeler, Judge Pat Parker, Fitts Candid 1-27-36
Handwritten on negative: Fitts trial 1-27-3

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Shoemaker, Clyde C., 1886-1965
Wheeler, Lucien Charles, 1878-1950
Parker, Pat, 1880-1948
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Courtrooms--California--Los Angeles
Judges--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Lawyers--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_12162
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002h85bg
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