Subject: Werner, Helen W., 1887-1947 / Names: Werner, Helen W., 1887-1947 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Helen M. Werner with her husband, former district attorney Erwin P. Werner. Helen Werner was charged with solicitation of a bribe, and this was her second trial, as the first ended with a hung jury.
Date:: [circa February 19, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Helen M. Werner with her husband, former district attorney Erwin P. Werner. Helen Werner, once known as "Queen Helen" due to her political power, was charged with solicitation of a bribe. This was her second trial, as her first ended with a hung jury.
Date:: [circa February 19, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Photograph appears with the article: “Jury’s deadlock in Criag-Werner trial indicated: secret notes exchanged with judge and voices heard in argument; defendants wait in court,” Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 1935: 1.
Date:: March 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Otto To Take Stand Today," Los Angeles Times, 20 July1933: A1.
Date:: July 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Helen Werner stands in an empty hallway, clutching her purse in one hand, her other arm bandages so completely only the tips of her fingers can be seen. A corsage of flowers is pinned over the sling that hangs around her neck.
Date:: February 27, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Date was not stamped or provided on negative but this photograph was included in the negative sleeve with two others pertaining to the Italo Petroleum Corporation bribery case, which was regularly reported on in 1935.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Italo Petroleum Corporation was originally charged with trying to defraud investors, saddle them with heavy losses over the failed purchase of another oil company. The fraud was allegedly conducted through letters mailed to the investors, hence the charge of mail fraud. Justice Gavin Craig, former political figure Helen Werner, and political lobbyist Joseph Weinblatt were all tried for attempting to bribe the U.S. Attorney General on behalf of the Italo Petroleum Corp.
Date:: February 25, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Italo Petroleum Corporation was originally charged with trying to defraud investors, saddle them with heavy losses over the failed purchase of another oil company. The fraud was allegedly conducted through letters mailed to the investors, hence the charge of mail fraud. Justice Gavin Craig, former political figure Helen Werner, and political lobbyist Joseph Weinblatt were all tried for attempting to bribe the U.S. Attorney General on behalf of the Italo Petroleum Corp.
Date:: February 27, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Blurry photograph of John C. Lee, sitting in a courtroom in what looks like the witness stand. He is wearing a 3 piece suit, and propping his left hand on the judge's desk.
Date:: December 15, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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