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

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

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
Portrait photographs
news photographs
Names: Sloan-Orcutt, Leafie (Elizabeth Sloan-Orcutt), 1865-1955
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Courtrooms--California--Los Angeles
Portrait photographs
Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_14232
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002j7s9m
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