Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Language: No linguistic content / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives / Subject: Crime - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Extras from Gower Gulch at an inquest supporting their friend Jerome (Blackjack) Ward, who is charged with the murder of Johnny Tyke. Gower Gulch is the name given to the area near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street where film extras hang out waiting for work; many of the nearby studios produce westerns so often actual working cowboys come here to break into the film business. Allegedly, Blackjack shot Tyke with a .45, but many of the hundreds of Gower Gulch extras who came to the inquest testified that Tyke had started the fight and was “doped up” at the time.
Date:: February 27, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Claude Parker, former Racing Commissioner, smoking a cigarette and preparing to testify during an investigation of political corruption in the horse racing community. Parker announced that he resigned from his position as commissioner when he found out Hollywood Park was promised winter racing dates after making a $150,000 donation to the Democratic State Central Committee
Date:: March 5, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Betty Flay Hardaker sits during questioning done by Dr. Paul De River, police psychiatrist, at the Los Angeles County Jail. Mrs. Hardaker was convicted of murdering her 5 year old daugher, Geraldine Hardaker, in a Montebello park washroom. The jury convicted her of committing the crime while of unsound mind.
Date:: February 23, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Betty Flay Hardaker on trial at the inquest conducted by Deputy Coroner Frank Monfort. Mrs. Hardaker was convicted of murdering her 5 year old daugher, Geraldine Hardaker, in a Montebello park washroom. The jury convicted her of committing the crime while of unsound mind.
Date:: February 23, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Detectives Joe Filkas and Edward Romero examining the body of Martha Neve, who died unexpectedly in her apartment. The detectives determined that it was not a murder or robbery as suspected.
Date:: [circa February 1, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Myrtle Takaoka and her brother Hal Takaoka in court at a preliminary hearing involving the murder of their dancer sister, Midi Takaoka. Judge Irvin Taplin was presiding. The dancer's throat was cut by her jilted lover, waiter Raymond Johnson. Johnson later was sentenced to life in prison.
Date:: August 19, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Suspects in the Inglewood Everett-Stephens murders (from left to right) John Dobson, Ed Cassidy, Leo Collins, and Ed King standing against a wall. Albert Dyer, a crossing guard, later confessed to the crime.
Date:: [circa July 3, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: New York socialite Henry L. Satterlee. Satterlee was brought in for questioning as a suspect for the Inglewood Everett-Stephens murders. Albert Dyer, a crossing guard, later confessed to the crime.
Date:: [circa July 3, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Police officer stands with R.F. McGarry, member of the Black Legion secret society. Black Legion was an organization that had ties to the Ku Klux Klan and operated mainly in Detroit, Michigan in the 1930s. The organization targeted African-Americans and slayed Silas Coleman on May 25, 1935.
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Betty Flay Hardaker takes an oath while on trial for murder. Mrs. Hardaker was convicted of murdering her 5 year old daugher, Geraldine Hardaker, in a Montebello park washroom. The jury convicted her of committing the crime while of unsound mind.
Date:: February 23, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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