Subject: Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles / Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Collection: OpenUCLA Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, "Former Ring Idol Enacts Death Scene on Witness Stand: DEFENSE CLOSES AS KID REVEALS FAMILY TAINT Ex-Pugilist Enacts His Version of Mrs. Mors's Death Before Jury; Arguments on Monday," Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 1924: A1
Date:: [December 19, 1924]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Watson, George R., 1892-1977
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: On February 7, 1936, District Attorney Buron Fitts was acquitted of perjury regarding a 1931 testimony over the sale of a Claremont orange grove. Mrs. Berthall Gregory, Fitts’ sister, sold the grove to Lucien C. Wheeler. Fitts reportedly falsified the amount of money he received through the sale. The perjury trial lasted three weeks.
Date:: February 7, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Buron Fitts and his legal team at his perjury trial. From left to right, William E. Simpson, Joe Scott, Fitts, Jerry Giesler.
Date:: January 20, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A similar court scene appears in a photo spread titled, "Woman Captures Burglar Suspect at Point of Revolver," Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 1924: 8
Date:: [circa December 1924]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: This photograph is related to the article, "'Trump Card' Letter Runs Riot in Endearing Phrases," Los Angeles Times, 4 May 1927: A8.
Date:: May 4, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Dan McNally (left), David Hutton (middle), and Jonathan Perkins huddled together during Rheba Crawford Case. Dave holds a pad of paper in his hands.
Date:: September 18, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: The camera peers through an open door and into the courtroom during Aimee Semple McPherson's preliminary hearing. Spectators sit in a row against a window-lined wall. At right, another photographer looks to camera while standing beside his camera.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Mr. McNeer is accused of shooting his wife and then turning the gun on himself, but maintains that the reverse happened and his wife's death was her own attempted murder-suicide. The bullet is still lodged in his brain.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Joseph P. Baillie (center) seated in court with his attorneys R. E. Parsons (left) and Joseph Fainer during sentencing. Baillee was convicted of kidnapping E. L. Caress, his wife and Japanese chauffeur.
Date:: [circa October 21, 1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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