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Witness looks at evidence during Aimee Semple McPherson's preliminary hearing, Los Angeles, circa 1926

Description:
At left, a witness sits on the witness stand during the preliminary trial regarding Aimee Semple McPherson's disappearance. The witness sits facing towards camera and looks down at an open book in front of him. To his left, Judge Blake sits up at the bench and looks down towards the witness. In front of the bench, lawyers sit at the counsel's table. In the foreground, a man stands with his back to camera along the right edge.
Date:
[circa 1926]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Witness looks at evidence during Aimee Semple McPherson's preliminary hearing, Los Angeles, circa 1926

Councilman James S. McKnight sits at the defense counsel's table with his attorneys, Los Angeles, 1933

Description:
From left to right, defense attorneys Roland Swaffield and Mark Jones sit behind the counsel's table with their client, City Council member James S. McKnight. They sit in a row and face towards the right. Documents clutter the table in front of them. A few spectators sit in the gallery in the background at left.
Date:
[circa April 6, 1933]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Councilman James S. McKnight sits at the defense counsel's table with his attorneys, Los Angeles, 1933

Witness testifies at Aimee Semple McPherson's preliminary hearing, Los Angeles, circa 1926

Description:
At left, a witness sits on the witness stand during the preliminary trial regarding Aimee Semple McPherson's disappearance. The witness sits facing towards the right and rests her elbow on the box's ledge. To the right of her, Judge Blake sits up at the bench and looks towards the counsel's table. In the foreground at right, a few lawyers sit at the counsel's table.
Date:
[circa 1926]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Witness testifies at Aimee Semple McPherson's preliminary hearing, Los Angeles, circa 1926

Witness testifies at Aimee Semple McPherson's preliminary hearing, Los Angeles, circa 1926

Description:
At left, a witness sits on the witness stand during the preliminary trial regarding Aimee Semple McPherson's disappearance. The witness sits facing towards the right and rests a elbow on the box's ledge. To the right of him, Judge Blake sits up at the bench and takes notes. In the foreground at right, a few lawyers sit at the counsel's table.
Date:
[circa 1926]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Witness testifies at Aimee Semple McPherson's preliminary hearing, Los Angeles, circa 1926

U.S. Attorney Peirson M. Hall with unidentified man, Los Angeles, 1933-1937

Description:
Peirson M. Hall was an attorney in the Los Angeles County who once served as a city councilman, U.S. attorney, and eventually a Los Angeles Superior Court judgeBecause the negative sleeve labels Hall as a U.S. Attorney, we can assume that the photograph was probably taken between 1933 and 1937, when Peirson served that post.
Date:
[between 1933-1937]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
U.S. Attorney Peirson M. Hall with unidentified man, Los Angeles, 1933-1937

Buron Fitts at his perjury trial, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
On February 7, 1936, District Attorney Buron Fitts was acquitted of perjury regarding a 1931 testimony over the sale of a Claremont orange grove. Mrs. Berthall Gregory, Fitts’ sister, sold the grove to Lucien C. Wheeler. Fitts reportedly falsified the amount of money he received through the sale. The perjury trial lasted three weeks.
Date:
February 7, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Buron Fitts at his perjury trial, Los Angeles, 1936

Buron Fitts thanks jury after acquittal, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
On February 7, 1936, District Attorney Buron Fitts was acquitted of perjury regarding a 1931 testimony over the sale of a Claremont orange grove. Mrs. Berthall Gregory, Fitts’ sister, sold the grove to Lucien C. Wheeler. Fitts reportedly falsified the amount of money he received through the sale. The perjury trial lasted three weeks.
Date:
February 7, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Buron Fitts thanks jury after acquittal, Los Angeles, 1936

Louis G. Caldwell gives a speech about the New Deal at the American Bar Association, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
This photograph appears with the article, “Bar Association Assails Despotism of Administration: New Deal Licensing of Business Condemned by Nation’s Lawyers; Constitution Defended New Deal Despotism Assailed in Committee Summary of Bar Association LICENSING OF BUSINESS CONDEMNED BY LAWYERS Persecution by Regulation Charged to Administration in Report; Constitution Defended,” Los Angeles Times, 19 Jul. 1935: 1.
Date:
July 18, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Louis G. Caldwell gives a speech about the New Deal at the American Bar Association, Los Angeles, 1935

David Hutton and his attorney Willedd Andrews, Los Angeles, 1932

Description:
David Hutton (right) and his lawyer, Willedd Andrews, sit at a table while David Hutton holds a document in his hand. David Willedd was technically the attorney for Aimee McPherson but retained for David Hutton as well. Men are seated behind Andrews. The calendar on the wall says "State Mutual Building and Loan Association". It was the building's 44th birthday that year in 1932.
Date:
1932
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
David Hutton and his attorney Willedd Andrews, Los Angeles, 1932

Lawyers Norman Bailie and Robert M. Clarke enacting roles as authors of the U.S. Constitution, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Attorney and former Judge Robert M. Clarke adjusts the costume of Lawyer Norman A. Bailie. The men participated in a pageant presented by the Los Angeles Bar Association, "The Making of the Constitution of the United States of America," at the Philharmonic Auditorium. Bailie was portraying Robert Morris of Philadelphia, and the other participants played other authors of the United States Constitution.
Date:
July 19, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Lawyers Norman Bailie and Robert M. Clarke enacting roles as authors of the U.S. Constitution, Los Angeles, 1935

Juvenile party evidence, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Attorneys examining hidden booze in delinquent case. The booze appears to be hidden in random boxes that say things like: "Victory Dog & Cat Food, 'Best for all dogs', Victory Packing Co., Oakland, California, 4 dozen, 1lb. cans and another box says "Tomato Juice". One of the bottles is "Cognac Brandy" and the cart that all of these boxes are on is stamped with "FORBES BROS.CO. 2808 Santa Fe Ave., Los Angeles. CAL
Date:
October 16, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Juvenile party evidence, Los Angeles, 1935

Forrest Murray questions Alonzo B. Murchison during Aimee Semple McPherson's kidnapping case, Los Angeles, circa 1926

Description:
At left, attorney Forrest Murray stands beside the witness box during the kidnapping case of Aimee Semple McPherson. He stands facing slightly right and holds up the dress worn by McPherson when found in the desert. To the right of him, Alonzo B. Murchison, a native of Douglas, Arizona, sits on the witness stand.
Date:
[circa 1926]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Forrest Murray questions Alonzo B. Murchison during Aimee Semple McPherson's kidnapping case, Los Angeles, circa 1926

Attorney Robert H. Davis and Kenn Touschner, accidental shooter, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Attorney Robert H. Davis sits on the left side of the table, leaning forward, arms resting on the table in front of him, hands clasped together. He is looking away from the camera. Kenneth Touschner, who accidentally shot his friend Cleo L. Haskins, Jr., sits on the right, resting his chin in his hands, elbows on the table. His eyes are downcast.
Date:
[between December 14-18, 1934]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Attorney Robert H. Davis and Kenn Touschner, accidental shooter, Los Angeles, 1935

Captain Bert Massey, LAPD officer and Liquor Control Act administrator in Los Angeles County, in court, Los Angeles, 1935?

Description:
Captain Bert Massey, a Los Angeles Police Department officer who also served as administrator of the Liquor Control Act in Los Angeles County, seated at the head of a table in the center of the photo, with two women at each side of the table. Behind Massey is a man in a light-colored suit, seated in a chair. Behind a bench in the background are Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney H. Leslie Wildey on the left and a person whose head is obscured by Massey's. This photograph was possibly taken during a California State Senate committee's July 1935 investigation of favoritism that existed in the issuance of liquor licenses in Los Angeles County. Wildey was appointed to act as an observer during the hearings and report to the grand jury any information that indicated criminal activities.
Date:
[July, 1935?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Captain Bert Massey, LAPD officer and Liquor Control Act administrator in Los Angeles County, in court, Los Angeles, 1935?

Joseph Scott and Father Superior Augustine, [Los Angeles or Santa Barbara?], [1920-1939]

Description:
From left to right, Attorney Joseph Scott and Father Superior Augustine stand at center. Joseph Scott wears a tuxedo and looks towards Father Superior Augustine at right. The Father Superior wears a habit and rosary beads. He rests his hands to his hips as he looks to the camera. Behind and to the left of Joseph Scott, the door to a men's room stands.
Date:
[between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Joseph Scott and Father Superior Augustine, [Los Angeles or Santa Barbara?], [1920-1939]

Joseph Scott and family, Los Angeles vicinity, circa 1930s

Description:
Joseph Scott, 2 of his sons, Patrick and George, and his wife, Bertha, pose after disembarking from an airplane. Bertha Scott stands at center with her sons standing to either side of her. She holds a cane as she looks to the camera. To the left of Bertha, Patrick Scott stands and looks to camera. At far right, George Scott stands. Both Patrick and George wear their clerical collars. Behind Bertha and between his sons, Joseph Scott stands elevated on a stool at center. He looks to camera. Behind the Scotts, the fuselage of a small aircraft stretches across the image.
Date:
[circa 1930s]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Joseph Scott and family, Los Angeles vicinity, circa 1930s

Attys. Leonard Wilson and Charles Rude with convicted murderer Louis R. Payne and his father Lucius Payne, Los Angeles, 1934-1935

Description:
In early June, 1934, police officers discovered the bodies of Carrie L. Payne, 45, and Robert Payne, 15, at their Westwood home. They had been brutally murdered by Louis R. Payne, their respective son and brother, in late May. Payne was arrested several days after he committed the crime and after confessing at a Huntington Beach police station. In January, 1935 he plead insanity and was sent to a sanitarium.
Date:
[between June, 1934 and January, 1935]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Attys. Leonard Wilson and Charles Rude with convicted murderer Louis R. Payne and his father Lucius Payne, Los Angeles, 1934-1935

Councilman Carl I. Jacobson with counsel during his trial, Los Angeles, 1927

Description:
Photograph of Thirteenth district councilman, Carl I. Jacobson (fifth from right, front row) surrounded by lawyers and counsel, during his trial for violation of the moral code. Councilman Jacobson was charged with resorting to a room for immoral purposes. He was later freed of charges, and it was reported that he had been framed.
Date:
[between Aug and Oct, 1927]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Councilman Carl I. Jacobson with counsel during his trial, Los Angeles, 1927

District Attorney Keyes testifying in the trial against Councilman Carl I. Jacobson, Los Angeles, 1927

Description:
Councilman Carl I. Jacobson of the Thirteenth district was charged with resorting to a room for immoral purposes and violation of the moral code as a result of a raid by the vice squad. He was later freed of charges and it was established that he had been framed. District Attorney Keyes was one of the first men to have spoken to the Councilman following his arrest.
Date:
Sep 14, 1927
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
District Attorney Keyes testifying in the trial against Councilman Carl I. Jacobson, Los Angeles, 1927

Maurice Kusell, Blayney Matthews, Jayne Manners and Milton Golden During the case of the disappearance of Justice Crater, Los Angeles, 1925

Description:
It was a matter of he-said, she-said during Maurice Kusell's divorce hearing from his wife Jayne Manners regarding information about the five-year-old disappearance of Supreme Court Justice Joseph F. Crater, the couple steadfastly supporting their two different stories regarding the Crater disappearance.
Date:
September 10, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Maurice Kusell, Blayney Matthews, Jayne Manners and Milton Golden During the case of the disappearance of Justice Crater, Los Angeles, 1925