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Zelda Smith on witness stand, with Coroner Frank Nance and jury, at arraignment of Harold Wolcott for the Pasadena murder of Helen Bendowski, 1933

Description:: A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, August 17, 1933, Principal Figures at Inquiry on Penthouse Tragedy. … Mrs. Zelda Smith, who testified as to what she saw and heard on night of slaying. …
Date:: August 16, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

William Talman, James Baker with attorney C. Richard Maddox during booking for marijuana possession in Los Angeles, Calif., 1960

Date:: March 14, 1960
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

William R. Ely, Judge W. R. Ely, helping Walter Ely put on his judicial robes in Los Angeles, Calif., 1964

Date:: October 27, 1964
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

William P. Carr, Deputy Prosecutor, stands next to a still, Los Angeles, 1930-1933

Description:: William P. Carr, Deputy Prosecutor, stands next to a still composed of a metal can, a metal cylindrical container with a gauge on top and a funnel. According to the annotation to the negative sleeve, there is come connection between the still and the Angelus Temple. On the wall behind Carr is a calendar advertising an insurance provider called the Seyler-Day Co.
Date:: [between 1930-1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

William J. Cook and Edward Levine at the liquor license bribe trial, Oct. 1939 - May 1940

Description:: William J. Cook (left), friend and campaign worker for William G. Bonelli, and Ed Levine, a lobbyist, at the liquor license bribe trial. Both are accused of involvement in a liquor license bribe scandal in which they conspired with at least five others to extort money from liquor retailers under threat of causing them to lose their liquor license
Date:: between October 24, 1939 and May 29, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

William H. Langdon, justice of California state supreme court

Description:: PROBLEM: photo of a photo.
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

William Freelove trial, Beverly Hills, October 9, 1935

Description:: Photo of unknown people at the Beverly Hills “Lottery Trial” of William Freelove and Howard J. Rile in October, 1935
Date:: October 9, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

William Freelove trial, Beverly Hills, October 9, 1935

Description:: Photo of unknown people at the “Lottery Trial” of William Freelove and Howard J. Rile in October, 1935
Date:: October 9, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

William E. MacFaden and Robert W. Kenny, two of California's youngest judges, Los Angeles, circa 1934

Description:: Will E. MacFaden (1913-1992) and Robert W. Kenny (1901-1976), pose together as two of California's youngest judges. William E. MacFaden (1913-1992) became the youngest judge in the state of California when he was sworn in as Redondo Beach city judge on July 1934.Robert W. Kenny was a former reporter and one of the youngest judges selected to serve as a Superior Court Judge in Los Angeles. He was appointed on December 6, 1932. He later served as the 21st Attorney General of California.
Date:: between 1932-1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

William Bioff smoking in front of Superior Court where he was indicted for tax evasion, Los Angeles, 1939

Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

William Bioff sitting at defendant's table during court proceedings, Los Angeles, 1939.

Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

William Bioff on the stand, smoking, during testimony, 1939.

Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

William and Emily Harris, manacled and being escorted to bus by sheriffs in Los Angeles, Calif., 1976

Date:: September 3, 1976
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Kennedy, Joe
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

William A. Hudson testifies before the coroner's jury for murder charges brought against Busby Berkeley for drunk driving, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: William A. Hudson testifies before a coroner's jury for the murder charges against Busby Berkeley. Berkeley had been the cause for a three-car-collision that resulted in two deaths, possibly due to alcohol he had reportedly imbibed at a cocktail party beforehand. Hudson was a student injured in the crash who testified that he had smelled liquor on Berkeley's breath while speaking to him after the crash.
Date:: [circa December 11, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

William A. Hudson testifies before the coroner's jury for murder charges brought against Busby Berkeley for drunk driving, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: William A. Hudson testifies before a coroner's jury for the murder charges against Busby Berkeley. Berkeley had been the cause for a three-car-collision that resulted in two deaths, possibly due to alcohol he had reportedly imbibed at a cocktail party beforehand. Hudson was a student injured in the crash who testified that he had smelled liquor on Berkeley's breath while speaking to him after the crash.
Date:: [circa December 11, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

William A. Dessert, juror at the murder trial of Paul A. Wright, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: William A. Dessert, juror at the Paul A. Wright "white flame" double murder trial. Wright is accused of shooting his wife, Evelyn, and best friend, John B. Kimmel, after allegedly finding the two in an embrace on a piano bench in his home. Wright was ultimately found not guilty by reason of temporary insanity.
Date:: between January 13 and February 17, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

William A. Dessert, juror at the murder trial of Paul A. Wright, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: William A. Dessert, juror at the Paul A. Wright "white flame" double murder trial. Wright is accused of shooting his wife, Evelyn, and best friend, John B. Kimmel, after allegedly finding the two in an embrace on a piano bench in his home. Wright was ultimately found not guilty by reason of temporary insanity.
Date:: between January 13 and February 17, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom during an inquest involving his wife's death, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom. James had lost his pregnant wife Mary Emma James after she drowned in their fish pool. A jury was unable to discern whether her drowning was accidental or intentional.
Date:: [circa August 16, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom during an inquest involving his wife's death, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom. James had lost his pregnant wife Mary Emma James after she drowned in their fish pool. A jury was unable to discern whether her drowning was accidental or intentional.
Date:: [circa August 16, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom during an inquest involving his wife's death, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom. James had lost his pregnant wife Mary Emma James after she drowned in their fish pool. A jury was unable to discern whether her drowning was accidental or intentional.
Date:: [circa August 16, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom during an inquest involving his wife's death, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom. James had lost his pregnant wife Mary Emma James after she drowned in their fish pool. A jury was unable to discern whether her drowning was accidental or intentional.
Date:: [circa August 16, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom during an inquest involving his wife's death, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom. James had lost his pregnant wife Mary Emma James after she drowned in their fish pool. A jury was unable to discern whether her drowning was accidental or intentional.
Date:: [circa August 16, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom during an inquest involving his wife's death, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom. James had lost his pregnant wife Mary Emma James after she drowned in their fish pool. A jury was unable to discern whether her drowning was accidental or intentional.
Date:: [circa August 16, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom during an inquest involving his wife's death, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom. James had lost his pregnant wife Mary Emma James after she drowned in their fish pool. A jury was unable to discern whether her drowning was accidental or intentional.
Date:: [circa August 16, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom during an inquest involving his wife's death, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom. James had lost his pregnant wife Mary Emma James after she drowned in their fish pool. A jury was unable to discern whether her drowning was accidental or intentional.
Date:: [circa August 16, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom during an inquest involving his wife's death, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom. James had lost his pregnant wife Mary Emma James after she drowned in their fish pool. A jury was unable to discern whether her drowning was accidental or intentional.
Date:: [circa August 16, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom during an inquest involving his wife's death, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom. James had lost his pregnant wife Mary Emma James after she drowned in their fish pool. A jury was unable to discern whether her drowning was accidental or intentional.
Date:: [circa August 16, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom during an inquest involving his wife's death, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom. James had lost his pregnant wife Mary Emma James after she drowned in their fish pool. A jury was unable to discern whether her drowning was accidental or intentional.
Date:: [circa August 16, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom during an inquest involving his wife's death, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom. James had lost his pregnant wife Mary Emma James after she drowned in their fish pool. A jury was unable to discern whether her drowning was accidental or intentional.
Date:: [circa August 16, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom during an inquest involving his wife's death, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom. James had lost his pregnant wife Mary Emma James after she drowned in their fish pool. A jury was unable to discern whether her drowning was accidental or intentional.
Date:: [circa August 16, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom during an inquest involving his wife's death, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom. James had lost his pregnant wife Mary Emma James after she drowned in their fish pool. A jury was unable to discern whether her drowning was accidental or intentional.
Date:: [circa August 16, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom during an inquest involving his wife's death, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom. James had lost his pregnant wife Mary Emma James after she drowned in their fish pool. A jury was unable to discern whether her drowning was accidental or intentional.
Date:: [circa August 16, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom during an inquest involving his wife's death, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom. James had lost his pregnant wife Mary Emma James after she drowned in their fish pool. A jury was unable to discern whether her drowning was accidental or intentional.
Date:: [circa August 16, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom during an inquest involving his wife's death, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom. James had lost his pregnant wife Mary Emma James after she drowned in their fish pool. A jury was unable to discern whether her drowning was accidental or intentional.
Date:: [circa August 16, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

W. H. Bowers and Olive Orr Brugen-Schmidt Bowers during poison plot trial, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:: W. H. Bowers and Olive Orr Brugen-Schmidt Bowers, married three just months, seated together at a court proceeding. Olive Bowers was accused of plotting with Elmer M. Archer to poison her husband. The plot was discovered when their conversations were overheard on a 2-party telephone line.
Date:: March, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Wayne Fisher, foreman of the 1934 Los Angeles County Grand Jury.

Date:: [circa February 20, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Wayne Fisher, foreman of the 1934 Los Angeles County Grand Jury.

Description:: Wayne Fisher was the foreman of the 1934 Los Angeles County Grand Jury. Fisher was born in Sioux Falls, S.D. in 1892, although he was educated in Los Angeles and graduated from the college of law at the University of Southern California. Fisher was an investment banker and a sport aviator.
Date:: [circa February 20, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Wayne Fisher, foreman of the 1934 Los Angeles County Grand Jury.

Description:: Wayne Fisher was the foreman of the 1934 Los Angeles County Grand Jury. Fisher was born in Sioux Falls, S.D. in 1892, although he was educated in Los Angeles and graduated from the college of law at the University of Southern California. Fisher was an investment banker and a sport aviator.
Date:: [circa February 20, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Wayne Fisher, foreman of the 1934 Los Angeles County Grand Jury.

Description:: Wayne Fisher was the foreman of the 1934 Los Angeles County Grand Jury. Fisher was born in Sioux Falls, S.D. in 1892, although he was educated in Los Angeles and graduated from the college of law at the University of Southern California. Fisher was an investment banker and a sport aviator.
Date:: [circa February 20, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Wayne Fisher, foreman of the 1934 Los Angeles County Grand Jury.

Description:: Wayne Fisher was the foreman of the 1934 Los Angeles County Grand Jury. Fisher was born in Sioux Falls, S.D. in 1892, although he was educated in Los Angeles and graduated from the college of law at the University of Southern California. Fisher was an investment banker and a sport aviator.
Date:: [circa February 20, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Walter L. Gordon, Jr. with two clients after a trial, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr. (center) with his two clients after a trial. The man on the left was a church minister, and the man on the right was his assistant. They were accused of stealing money from the church.
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Smith, Jesse, photographer
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Walter L. Gordon, Jr. in the library at his office, Los Angeles, 1945

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Walter E. Carr, district director of immigration, with Harry B. Blee, Los Angeles, 1925

Description:: Walter E. Carr, district director of immigration, with Harry B. Blee, also of immigration, looking at a document on a desk
Date:: 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Walter E. Carr, district director of immigration, Los Angeles, 1925

Description:: This photograph, cropped, appears with Los Angeles Times article, "Carr Takes Former Job, Immigration Director Back in Post Here as Duties of Office Increase," December 27, 1934.
Date:: 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Walter A. Smith taking oath during his trial for negligent homicide, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Walter A. Smith taking oath during his trial for negligent homicide. Smith was involved in the traffic death of Charles M. Daneri. The charges against Smith were dismissed when the judge ruled the accident was unavoidable.
Date:: March 26, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Walter and Trude Loewendahl, parents of Erika Nussimbaum Essad-Bey, wife suing for annulment, 1937

Description:: This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, November 19, 1937, Parents of Plaintiff in Marital Tangle, Annulment Case Proceeds in Suing Wife’s Absence. Efforts of a mother, father, and brother to obtain a marriage annulment … created an unusual situation … The suit was that of Mrs. Erika Nussimbaum Essad-Bey, who sought an annulment from her Berlin marriage to Leo Nussimbaum Mohammed Essad-Bey …
Date:: November 18, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Walter and Trude Loewendahl, parents of Erika Nussimbaum Essad-Bey, wife suing for annulment, 1937

Description:: This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, November 19, 1937, Parents of Plaintiff in Marital Tangle, Annulment Case Proceeds in Suing Wife’s Absence. Efforts of a mother, father, and brother to obtain a marriage annulment … created an unusual situation … The suit was that of Mrs. Erika Nussimbaum Essad-Bey, who sought an annulment from her Berlin marriage to Leo Nussimbaum Mohammed Essad-Bey …
Date:: November 18, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Walter and Trude Loewendahl, parents of Erika Nussimbaum Essad-Bey, wife suing for annulment, 2 filmstrip images, 1937

Description:: These 2 images are duplicated in uclamss_1429_0193 and uclamss_1429_0194
Date:: November 18, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Virginia McMartin at preliminary hearing of McMartin Preschool molestation case in Los Angeles, Calif., 1984

Date:: August 18, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Melcon, Mel
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

View from the juror's bench of accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the stand, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: A view from the juror's bench of accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the stand. Wright, an airport executive, shot his wife and his best friend while they sat together on a piano bench. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Date:: [circa January 13, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

View from the juror's bench of accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the stand, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: A view from the juror's bench of accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the stand. Wright, an airport executive, shot his wife and his best friend while they sat together on a piano bench. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Date:: [circa January 13, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

View from the juror's bench of accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the stand, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: A view from the juror's bench of accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the stand. Wright, an airport executive, shot his wife and his best friend while they sat together on a piano bench. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Date:: [circa January 13, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Valerie Terrigno with attorney Howard Weitzman leaving court after her embezzlement conviction in West Hollywood, Calif., 1986

Date:: March 15, 1986
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Becker, David
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Valerie Terrigno and attorney, Howard L. Weitzman in Los Angeles, Calif., 1986

Date:: May 1, 1986
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Melcon, Mel
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Unidentified supporters of the Townsend Plan work in an office, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Unidentified supporters of Dr. Francis Townsend's old-age pension plan attend to paperwork.
Date:: [1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Undercover police officers Janet Penna and Mark Mooring in disguises on streets of Venice, Calif., 1976

Date:: February 2, 1976
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Fry, George R.
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Two Los Angeles police detectives looking over the body of actress Carole Landis in Landis' home in Los Angeles, Calif., 1948

Date:: July 6, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Tomoya Kawakita behind bars in the Los Angeles County Jail, 1947

Date:: June 7, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Tom Neal smiles to the camera in District Attorney S. Ernest Roll's office during questioning regarding his fight with Franchot Tone, 1951.

Description:: Image that appears with caption in print is b133_72050-pa.
Date:: September 26, 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Tom Neal describes fight between himself and Franchot Tone that ended with the latter hospitalized, 1951.

Date:: September 17, 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Tom Neal, being questioned in th eoffice of District Attorney S. Ernest Roll, waves hand to deny initiating the fight that landed Franchot Tone in the hospital, 1951.

Date:: September 26, 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Tom Neal and Barbara Payton kiss at the airport before Payton's trip to London, 1952.

Date:: July 24, 1952
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Three of the Los Angeles 8; Naim Sharif, Aiad Barakat and Bashar Amer leaving L.A. Federal Building, 1987

Date:: February 19, 1987
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Downs, Patrick
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Thomas W. Warner Jr. testifies in his suit against Pearl Antibus, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Thomas W. Warner Jr., son of millionaire automobile parts manufacturing magnate Thomas W. Warner Sr., pictured on the stand. Warner Jr. had brought a suit against Pearl Antibus, a private investigator, whom he had hired to determine if his fiancee, Jean MacDonald, loved him for himself or was only interested in his fortune. Antibus investigated by placing a dictaphone in MacDonald's home. The sum total of her services came to $2500, $1500 of which was still owed to her. Warner disputed the amount, which he asserted he had never agreed to, and thus brought suit against Antibus. Superior Judge Stutsman ruled on April 14 that, as Antibus had successfully completed her services and determined that Warner's fiancee did love him, she thus was owed the full amount. He further opined that, after viewing Jean MacDonald on the stand, that "she is well worth that $1500 and more."
Date:: April, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Thomas W. Warner Jr. testifies in his suit against Pearl Antibus, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Thomas W. Warner Jr., son of millionaire automobile parts manufacturing magnate Thomas W. Warner Sr., pictured on the stand. Warner Jr. had brought a suit against Pearl Antibus, a private investigator, whom he had hired to determine if his fiancee, Jean MacDonald, loved him for himself or was only interested in his fortune. Antibus investigated by placing a dictaphone in MacDonald's home. The sum total of her services came to $2500, $1500 of which was still owed to her. Warner disputed the amount, which he asserted he had never agreed to, and thus brought suit against Antibus. Superior Judge Stutsman ruled on April 14 that, as Antibus had successfully completed her services and determined that Warner's fiancee did love him, she thus was owed the full amount. He further opined that, after viewing Jean MacDonald on the stand, that "she is well worth that $1500 and more."
Date:: April, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Thomas W. Warner Jr. testifies in his suit against Pearl Antibus, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Thomas W. Warner Jr., son of millionaire automobile parts manufacturing magnate Thomas W. Warner Sr., pictured on the stand. Warner Jr. had brought a suit against Pearl Antibus, a private investigator, whom he had hired to determine if his fiancee, Jean MacDonald, loved him for himself or was only interested in his fortune. Antibus investigated by placing a dictaphone in MacDonald's home. The sum total of her services came to $2500, $1500 of which was still owed to her. Warner disputed the amount, which he asserted he had never agreed to, and thus brought suit against Antibus. Superior Judge Stutsman ruled on April 14 that, as Antibus had successfully completed her services and determined that Warner's fiancee did love him, she thus was owed the full amount. He further opined that, after viewing Jean MacDonald on the stand, that "she is well worth that $1500 and more."
Date:: April, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Thomas W. Warner, Jr. sits next to private detective Pearl Antibus who was suing his millionaire father for damages that resulted from a raid on her home, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Pearl Antibus can be seen on the other side of the beam. Mrs. Antibus sued Mr. Warner, Sr. after her home was raided by Buron Fitts and several of his deputies at the request of Mr. Warner, Sr. The raid of Mrs. Antibus' home was conducted in order to search for Mr. Warner's son, Thomas W. Warner, Jr. Mr. Warner, Jr. was found hiding inside the home with his girlfriend Mrs. Jean MacDonald. The pair had been hiding in the home from Mr. Warner, Sr. who was opposed to their relationship and was seeking to end all contact between the pair. Mrs. Antibus served as a private detective for Mr. Warner, Jr. and had previously conducted an investigation into the life of Mrs. MacDonald in attempt to determine whether she was truly in love with Mr. Warner, Jr. Mrs. Antibus alleged that the raid left several of her visitors injured and was unnecessarily violent.
Date:: April 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Thomas W. Warner, Jr. sits next to private detective Pearl Antibus who was suing his millionaire father for damages that resulted from a raid on her home, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Pearl Antibus can be seen on the other side of the beam. Mrs. Antibus sued Mr. Warner, Sr. after her home was raided by Buron Fitts and several of his deputies at the request of Mr. Warner, Sr. The raid of Mrs. Antibus' home was conducted in order to search for Mr. Warner's son, Thomas W. Warner, Jr. Mr. Warner, Jr. was found hiding inside the home with his girlfriend Mrs. Jean MacDonald. The pair had been hiding in the home from Mr. Warner, Sr. who was opposed to their relationship and was seeking to end all contact between the pair. Mrs. Antibus served as a private detective for Mr. Warner, Jr. and had previously conducted an investigation into the life of Mrs. MacDonald in attempt to determine whether she was truly in love with Mr. Warner, Jr. Mrs. Antibus alleged that the raid left several of her visitors injured and was unnecessarily violent.
Date:: April 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Thomas W. Warner, Jr. sits next to detective Pearl Antibus who was suing his millionaire father for damages that resulted from a raid on her home, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Mrs. Antibus sued Mr. Warner after her home was raided by Buron Fitts and several of his deputies at the request of Mr. Warner. The raid of Mrs. Antibus' home was conducted in order to search for Mr. Warner's son, Thomas W. Warner, Jr. Mr. Warner, Jr. was found hiding inside the home with his girlfriend Mrs. Jean MacDonald. The pair had been hiding in the home from Mr. Warner, Sr. who was opposed to their relationship and was seeking to end all contact between the pair. Mrs. Antibus served as a private detective for Mr. Warner, Jr. and had previously conducted an investigation into the life of Mrs. MacDonald in attempt to determine whether she was truly in love with Mr. Warner, Jr. Mrs. Antibus alleged that the raid left several of her visitors injured and was unnecessarily violent.
Date:: April, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Thomas L. Griffith Jr. being sworn in by judges Victor Hansen and Eugene Fay, Los Angeles, Calif., 1953

Date:: April 1, 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Thomas Edward Dugger, also known as "Ape Man", stares at hands while on trial for assaulting three women, Los Angeles, 1935-1936

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

Thomas Edward Dugger, also known as "Ape Man", poses while on trial for assaulting three women, Los Angeles, 1935-1936

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

Thomas Edward Dugger, also known as "Ape Man", on trial for assaulting three women, Los Angeles, 1935-1936

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

Telles family at the Sleepy Lagoon murder case acquittal

Description:: After the murder and assault convictions of 17 Mexican American youths in the Sleepy Lagoon murder case, the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee advocated for the defendants until the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the convictions as a miscarriage of justice.
Date:: Oct 1944
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Sybil Brand talking with inmate Yolanda Aguilar at Sybil Brand Institute for Women, Calif., 1986

Date:: May 15, 1986
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Atkins, Lacy
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Judges Malcolm M. Lucas and Thomas Reavley presiding at Pepperdine University's 11th annual moot court competition, 1985

Date:: February 2, 1985
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Chamberlin, Bob
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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State code commissioners William G. Hale, Perry Evans, and T.C. Ridgway, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Commission member, Thomas Perry, stands between fellow commissioners William G. Hale and Thomas C. Ridgway, who are both seated at a table strewn with documents. The California Code Commission, tasked with revising and codifying laws from thousands of specific state statutes, met to outline its objectives. Members were chosen from the legal and academic community. Commissioners included: President Thomas Caldwell Ridgway, former president of the California bar association; Vice-chairs, USC Dean William Green Hale and Perry Evans of San Francisco; Secretary Fred B. Wood; Don G. Bowker of Los Angeles; Gerald Hanna Hagar of Oakland; Berkeley's Professor Alexander Marsden Kidd; Stanford's Professor William B. Owens, and Norris N. Montgomery of Santa Barbara. Hagar and Kidd's names are misspelled in the Los Angeles Times caption and nitrate negative captions.
Date:: October 5, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

State board of equalization member William G. Bonelli and Edward Levine at the liquor license bribe trial, Oct. 1939 - May 1940

Description:: State board of equalization member William G. Bonelli and lobbyist Ed Levine talking to each other at the liquor license bribe trial. Both men are accused of involvement in a liquor license bribe scandal in which they allegedly conspired with at least five others to extort money from liquor retailers under threat of causing them to lose their liquor license
Date:: between October 24, 1939 and May 29, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Stanley Chan (Chan Shau Hong) standing before United States flag at his naturalization ceremony in Los Angeles, Calif., 1944

Date:: June 9, 1944
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Special Forces Detail policeman C.J. O'Connell wearing gas mask, bullet-proof vest holding shot-gun, Inglewood, Calif., 1966

Date:: February 20, 1966
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

South Pasadena's first female police officer, Shirley Largent, issuing parking ticket, Calif., 1963

Date:: December 12, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Sonja Branting and Judge Ben B. Lindsey, Los Angeles, November 1935

Description:: Taken during Branting’s trip to Los Angeles from Stockholm to lecture about the rising Nazi threat. Her trip was sponsored by the World Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism. She was welcomed to Los Angeles by a group headed by Judge Lindsey. Branting and Lindsey were known figures on social reform issues in their respective nations. Branting’s father was multiple-time Swedish Prime Minister Hjalmar Branting.
Date:: [November 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Sonja Branting and Judge Ben B. Lindsey, Los Angeles, November 1935

Description:: Taken during Branting’s trip to Los Angeles from Stockholm to lecture about the rising Nazi threat. Her trip was sponsored by the World Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism. She was welcomed to Los Angeles by a group headed by Judge Lindsey. Branting and Lindsey were known figures on social reform issues in their respective nations. Branting’s father was multiple-time Swedish Prime Minister Hjalmar Branting.
Date:: [November, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Sol Zemansky waits in a chair at the grand jury trial on gambling conditions, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Sol Zemansky at the grandy jury trial on gambling conditions in Los Angeles. Zemansky refused to testify voluntarily at the trial and was later subpoenaed to testify. Zemansky was businessman who owned pawn shops and loan companies, including Provident Loan Association.
Date:: January 29, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Sol Zemansky at the grand jury trial on gambling conditions, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Sol Zemansky at the grandy jury trial on gambling conditions in Los Angeles. Zemansky refused to testify voluntarily at the trial and was later subpoenaed to testify. Zemansky was businessman who owned pawn shops and loan companies, including Provident Loan Association.
Date:: January 29, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Sol Zemansky at the grand jury trial on gambling conditions, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Sol Zemansky at the grandy jury trial on gambling conditions in Los Angeles. Zemansky refused to testify voluntarily at the trial and was later subpoenaed to testify. Zemansky was businessman who owned pawn shops and loan companies, including Provident Loan Association.
Date:: January 29, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Sixteen members of Mankind United at 1942 sedition-conspiracy trial in Los Angeles, Calif.

Date:: December 19, 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Sisters Ella Maria Lengel and Sarah Clark celebrate Lengel's divorce, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Ella Lengel, in a floral blouse, and sister Sarah, wearing a top with a white collar, smile cheerfully off-camera. A grinning man is seen in the distant background. Partly due to Clark's testimony, Lengel succesfully obtained a divorce from her allegedly abusive and philandering husband.
Date:: October 16, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Sirhan Sirhan surrounded by sheriff deputies and lawyer Michael A. McCowan, Calif., 1969

Date:: January 8, 1969
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Malmin, John
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Sima Gates and Daryl F. Gates after being sworn in as Los Angeles Police Chief, 1978

Date:: March 28, 1978
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Oliver, R. L.
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Silent film actress Sylvia Breamer in court with her sister Doris Kelly, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Silent film actress Sylvia Breamer (full name Sylvia Poppy Breamer Bohan) with her sister Doris Kelly in court attempting to recover $4000 which was loaned to her ex-husband Edmund R. Bohan from her late mother Jessie K. Plunkett. Breamer claimed that Bohan had never paid her mother back and now the money was rightfully owed to her and her sister, the heirs to their mother's estate. Bohan said the money was a gift from his former mother-in-law.
Date:: February 20, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Silent film actresses Betty Blythe and Claire Windsor awaiting to testify in divorce trial of Corinne Griffith in Los Angeles, Calif., 1966

Date:: May 12, 1966
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Sidney T. Graves, former L.A. County Supervisor, being transferred to San Quentin Penitentiary.

Description:: A photograph of Sidney T. Graves as he exits the Los Angeles County Jail on his way to San Quentin Penitentiary. Graves was convicted of bribery a year before, after accepting a sum of $80,000 in connection with the high San Gabriel dam project. At that time, Graves had been a county Supervisor. He was sentenced to one to fourteen years imprisonment for his crime.
Date:: March 30, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Sidney T. Graves, former L.A. County Supervisor, being transferred to San Quentin Penitentiary.

Description:: A photograph of Sidney T. Graves, covering his face with a newspaper as he is transferred from L.A. County Jail to San Quentin Penitentiary. Graves was convicted of bribery a year before, after accepting a sum of $80,000 in connection with the high San Gabriel dam project. At that time, Graves had been a county Supervisor. He was sentenced to one to fourteen years imprisonment for his crime.
Date:: March 30, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Sidney T. Graves, former L.A. County Supervisor, awaiting imprisonment in San Quentin.

Description:: A photograph of Sidney T. Graves as he awaited transfer from the Los Angeles County Jail to San Quentin Penitentiary. Graves was convicted of bribery a year before, after accepting a sum of $80,000 in connection with the high San Gabriel dam project. At that time, Graves had been a county Supervisor. He was sentenced to one to fourteen years imprisonment for his crime.The other men in the photo are unidentified. Graves is seated, right.
Date:: March 30, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Sidney T. Graves, former L.A. County Supervisor, awaiting imprisonment in San Quentin.

Description:: A photograph of Sidney T. Graves as he awaited transfer from the Los Angeles County Jail to San Quentin Penitentiary. Graves was convicted of bribery a year before, after accepting a sum of $80,000 in connection with the high San Gabriel dam project. At that time, Graves had been a county Supervisor. He was sentenced to one to fourteen years imprisonment for his crime.In this photograph, Graves shakes hands with Jack Cappell, the County Jail turnkey, bidding him goodbye. Cappell was a driver for the Board of Supervisors during the time Graves held office.
Date:: March 30, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Sidney T. Graves, former L.A. County Supervisor, awaiting imprisonment in San Quentin.

Description:: A photograph of Sidney T. Graves as he awaited transfer from the Los Angeles County Jail to San Quentin Penitentiary. Graves was convicted of bribery a year before, after accepting a sum of $80,000 in connection with the high San Gabriel dam project. At that time, Graves had been a county Supervisor. He was sentenced to one to fourteen years imprisonment for his crime.
Date:: March 30, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Sidney Cochin (aka The Nutty Housewife) wearing dress and heels in jail cell in Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1949

Date:: circa 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Shirley Smith stands with her mother, Betty Alice Phillips, and father, Melvin David Smith, outside of the courtroom while Superior Judge Fred Miller decides on a home for her after her divorced parents declare they do not want custody, Los Angeles, 1947

Description:: Shirley Smith, 14, and her brother Donald Smith, 11, were "abandoned" after their mother, Betty Alice Phillips, and father, Melvin D. Smith, both declared that they were unable to care for the children. The father, Mr. Smith, stated that he was re-married and had three children from his second wife. He asked to be relieved of custody because the two sets of children did not get along. Mrs. Phillips asked to be relieved of custody because she was in the process of divorcing her second husband and did not have a home to provide the children. Ultimately, Mrs. Phillips secured a home from her estranged husband and agreed to keep custody of the children. Superior Judge Fred Miller awarded custody to Mrs. Phillips.
Date:: April 23, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz with giving children from Olvera Street money for March of Dimes in Los Angeles, Calif., 1953

Date:: 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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