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Description:: Swiss chauffeur Fred Stettler, accused of the arson murders of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Barbour, showing Capt. Bert Wallis of the police homicide (right) squad $34 in silver hidden in a potato sack at Stettler's home. Stettler confessed to stealing the money from the Barbours after murdering them with a heavy object and setting a timing device which would set the bodies on fireNote: text on the nitrate sleeves and handwritten on the negative likely transcribed "Bert Wallis" incorrectly as "Bert Wallace"
Date:: February 21, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Sportsman Norman W. Church, accused of contributing $80,000 to Governor Olson's campaign fund to become the "sole boss of California horse racing." During a senate investigation of this charge, and others, Church testified that it was not true.
Date:: March 5, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Sportsman Norman W. Church (right) being questioned by the Sentate's race track investigating committee. Pictured here are (from left to right around the table) Claude Parker, Harold J. Powers, R.W. Kenny, chairman Daniel J. Metzger, and Frank J. Gordon. Church was accused of contributing $80,000 to Governor Olson's campaign fund to become the "sole boss of California horse racing." During the investigation, Church asserted that the claim was not true.
Date:: March 5, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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