Detective Lieutenant Ray Giese, Los Angeles County District Attorney Buron Fitts, and two unidentified men examine the hands of Thomas Edward Dugger who was on trial for assaulting three women, Los Angeles, 1935-1936

Title: Detective Lieutenant Ray Giese, Los Angeles County District Attorney Buron Fitts, and two unidentified men examine the hands of Thomas Edward Dugger who was on trial for assaulting three women, Los Angeles, 1935-1936
Date Created: Between 1935-1936
Date: 1935/1936
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Detective Lieutenant Ray Giese, Los Angeles County District Attorney Buron Fitts, and two unidentified men examine the hands of Thomas Edward Dugger. Dugger, known as "Ape Man", was convicted of eleven felonies related to the robbery, kidnapings, and assault of three women. Dugger was indicted on April 4, 1935 and sentenced to death by the Supreme Court on February 18, 1936.
Caption: Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: L to R Thomas Dugger, Det. Lt. Ray E. Giese, Dist. Att. Buron Fitts.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Dugger, Thomas Edward; Fitts, Buron; Giese, Ray E.; Sanderson, Leroy.

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Giese, Ray
Dugger, Thomas Edward
Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
People
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Criminals--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles
Legal

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz00254fgg
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