Charlotte Ethel Lee takes the witness stand beside Judge Charles S. Burnell, Los Angeles, 1927

Item Overview

Title

Charlotte Ethel Lee takes the witness stand beside Judge Charles S. Burnell, Los Angeles, 1927

Date Created

May 1927

Date

1927-05

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Miss Lee leans forward from her seat in the witness stand. Judge Burnell is fixated on something that he is writing, as is the court stenographer, who is seated at a lamp lit table in front of Miss Lee. Another unidentified man sits in the foreground, his chair facing the witness stand and his back facing the camera.
Miss Lee, former housekeeper of the deceased Ray Raymond, is put on the witness stand to ask whether or not she can recognize Paul Kelly's handwriting.
Photograph appears with the article, "Case Promises New Sensation," Los Angeles Times, 12 May 1927: A2.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Courtroom Scenes Above--Charlotte Ethel Lee, on the witness stand: Judge Burnell, right. Court reporter, foreground. Below-Helen Wilkinson comforting Dorothy Mackaye just before the latter rushed from the courtroom.
Text from negative sleeve: MacKaye, Dorothy Murder 1927 Some damaged try to scan

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Burnell, Charles S., 1874-1949
Lee, Charlotte Ethel

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Women domestics
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Judges--California--Los Angeles