Jury selected for the murder trial of Paul A. Wright, Los Angeles, 1938

Title: Jury selected for the murder trial of Paul A. Wright, Los Angeles, 1938
Date Created: January 18, 1938
Date: 1938-01-18
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Jury chosen for the Paul A. Wright “white flame” murder trial, in which Wright was tried for killing his wife Evelyn McBride Wright and best friend John B. Kimmel after finding the two in an embrace on a piano bench in his home. Jurors are: (back row left to right) Mary E. Smith, Joseph M. Stokes, Jesse C. Harriman, Alice M. Wheatley, Ruth R. Birkelund, Benjamin E. Erb and Abe Schwarz. (front row left to right) Zelda Eliot, Frank W. Akers, Carl Miller, William H. Foster, William A. Dessert, Jacob Gold and Edith W. Gale.
Caption: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Wright, Paul A. - Jury; Spectators at Trial; Giesler, Jerry

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Crimes of passion--California--Glendale
Homicides--California--Glendale
Juries--California--Los Angeles
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Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
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