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Detective Lieutenant Ray Giese and District Attorney Buron Fitts with Thomas Edward Dugger who was on trial for assaulting three women, Los Angeles, 1935-1936

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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
Detective Lieutenant Ray Giese and District Attorney Buron Fitts with Thomas Edward Dugger who was on trial for assaulting three women, Los Angeles, 1935-1936

Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts and Special Prosecutor Clyde Shoemaker, at Fitts' 1936 perjury trial.

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Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts and Special Prosecutor Clyde Shoemaker, pictured at Fitts' perjury trial, circa January 1936. Dist. Atty Fitts was charged with perjuring himself during testimony to a 1931 grand jury, in regards to real estate transactions carried out by his family. His sister and secretary, Mrs. Berthal Gregory, was also a defendant in this case.
Date:
[circa January, 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts and Special Prosecutor Clyde Shoemaker, at Fitts' 1936 perjury trial.

Accused murderer Fred Stettler showing Capt. Bert Wallis money Stettler had stolen and hidden in a potato sack at his home

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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
Accused murderer Fred Stettler showing Capt. Bert Wallis money Stettler had stolen and hidden in a potato sack at his home