Myrtle St. Pierre after winning a breach of promise law suit, Los Angeles, 1932

Item Overview
- Title
- Myrtle St. Pierre after winning a breach of promise law suit, Los Angeles, 1932
- Date Created
- July 9, 1932
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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In 1932, Myrtle St. Pierre brought a breach of promise suit against David Hutton two days after his marriage to the evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. The jury awarded her $5,000.
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Related to the article "Balm Granted In Hutton Case. Jury Agrees From Start; Sum of $5000 Awarded. Cheer Follows Decision as Temple Disciples Split. Aimee's Mate to Fight on; Miss St. Pierre Satisfied." Los Angeles Times, 10 Jul. 1932.
Photograph of Myrtle St. Pierre looking happy as she makes a phone call at a pay phone after a jury awarded her $5000 in a breach of promise suit against David Hutton. The location is probably the Los Angeles County Courthouse. - Caption
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Text from negative sleeve: St. Pierre, Myrtle (Joan), brought suit against David Hutton for betrayal in '34?
Title and caption from photo standalone: Aimee's Mate must Pay Nurse Who Accused Him: David L. Hutton and Hazel Myrtle Joan St. Pierre [Los Angeles Times, 10 Jul. 1932: 9]
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Subjects
- Trials (Breach of promise)--California--Los Angeles
- Names
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St. Pierre, Myrtle Hazel Joan, b. 1902 or 1903
Los Angeles County Courthouse (Los Angeles, Calif.) - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
- uclamss_1429_11504
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002h9jtg
- 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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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .