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Description:: Deputy Sheriff Carmack and Larry Morrell dig up human skeleton from East Los Angeles backyard. The skeleton was found by a 10-year-old boy and they were believed to have belonged to 50 or 60 year old man.
Date:: February 12, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Los Angeles District Attorney's investigator, Lloyd Yarrow, testifies in the bribery trial of George K. Thornton. Thornton, a California Board of Equalization officer, was charged with accepting money from Santa Barbara cafe owner Agnes O'Brien, for reinstatement of her liquor license.
Date:: July 30, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Los Angeles District Attorney's investigator, Lloyd Yarrow, testifies in the bribery trial of George K. Thornton. Thornton, a California Board of Equalization officer, was charged with accepting money from Santa Barbara cafe owner Agnes O'Brien, for reinstatement of her liquor license.
Date:: July 30, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Detective Lieutenant Miles Ledbetter and Ray Pinker search under sofa cushions for evidence relating to the murder of Celia Holmes. Mrs. Holmes was found shot and bruised in a Mulholland Way ravine.
Date:: January 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: From left to right: Det. Lt. F. L. McGlinchey (seated), Lou Daro (seated), Ed M. Crum, Det. Lt. L. E. Sanderson, Capt. E. A. Frendenberg (seated)
Date:: July 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Shortly after an altercation with wrestling promoter Lou Daro 35-year-old William Focher was shot by police officers after they had confused him for a bandit. After several hours of being treated at the hospital he died. Moore was in company of Focher at the time of the shooting and was held in jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.
Date:: July 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Related to "Man Killed in Fight at Beer Parlor," Los Angeles Times, 24 Jul 1935: A3.
Date:: July 26, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Confessed murderer John H. Happel holding up his hands as he testifies in court
Date:: February 14, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Temple Relief Quiz Under Way; Social Service Commission Investigates Charity," 9 Aug. 1932: A1.
Date:: August 8, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The camera looks through the open rear passenger door of an automobile and towards investigator Ted Allen. At left, Ted Allen sits inside the car, facing right. He bends forward as he lifts the floorboard off a secret compartment tucked behind the front passenger seat. The front passenger door remains closed at right. A couple of other men stand on the far side of the car in the background.
Date:: December 13, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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