Leafie Sloan-Orcutt on the witness stand, Los Angeles, 1936

Item Overview

Title

Leafie Sloan-Orcutt on the witness stand, Los Angeles, 1936

Date Created

May 8, 1936

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

A close-up picture from the shoulders up of Mrs. Sloan-Orcutt sitting in the witness stand.
Photograph appears with the article, "Transfer of Stocks to Weibert Described," Los Angeles Times, 09 May 1936: A3.
Mrs. Sloan-Orcutt was falsely promised $500 a month from promoter Bayard E. Weibert.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 5151 - Mrs. Leafy Sloan Orcutt (candid) (society woman - victim of weibert fraud) Weibert case 5-8-36 [stamped:] May 10 1936
Text from newspaper caption: "Money, money-he was always talking of money," said Mrs. Leafie Sloan-Orcutt, society woman, as she sat on the witness stand testifying against Bayard E. Weibert, Hollywood promoter, charged with grand theft.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

Portrait photographs
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Portrait photographs
Courtrooms--California--Los Angeles
Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles

Names

Sloan-Orcutt, Leafie (Elizabeth Sloan-Orcutt), 1865-1955

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image