Subject: Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles / Subject: Criminals--California--Los Angeles / Date: 1935 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Detective Lieutenant Ray Giese and Los Angeles County District Attorney Buron Fitts examine soiled clothing possibly owned by 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.
Date:: Between 1935-1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Thomas Edward 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.
Date:: Between 1935-1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Thomas Edward 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.
Date:: Between 1935-1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Thomas Edward 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.
Date:: Between 1935-1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Photograph of Harley W. Heddens seated in a courtroom. Heddens was accused of performing illegal abortions and charged with the murder of Ruth Attaway, who died after the botched procedure.
Date:: August 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph may be associated with the article, “The Lancer,” Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 1935: A1.
Date:: August 28, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Detective Lieutenant Rasmussen sits beside Layman, whose hands remain folded in his lap. Rows of spectators are seated behind them.
Date:: December 19, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 16-year-old Rosa Kiralla told the court that Lee R. Carr, father of her baby born last December, assaulted her in her home on multiple times, and after the baby was born with the help of Kiralla's mother and Carr's wife Mrs. Sarah Carr, Mr. Carr took the baby on the assertion that the baby was dead and the body needed to be disposed of.
Date:: August 8, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Families of the W.P.A. members slain and witnesses crowded in the courtroom to listen to the inquest of Charles Layman, former W.P.A. employee, who shot and killed six workmen at a site near La Brea Avenue and Exposition Boulevard.
Date:: December 19, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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