Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Resource Type: still image / Names: Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973 / Subject: Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: From left to right, District Attorney Buron Fitts sits with his attorneys, Jerry Giesler, Joseph Scott, and Jack Gilchrist, during his perjury trial before the grand jury.
Date:: [circa November 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Buron Fitts Trial Opens on Charge of Perjury," Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan 1936: 2.
Date:: January 15, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: District Attorney Buron Fitts stands next to his sister, Mrs. Berthal Gregory, both of which were facing an indictment for perjury by the county grand jury.
Date:: [circa November 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Fitts Trial in Perjury Case Opens," Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan 1936: 1.
Date:: January 21, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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

Description:: Buron Fitts, Los Angeles County District Attorney, seated at a table and holding a typescript, probably during the trial of Thomas Edward Dugger.
Date:: [between 1935-1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Buron Fitts, Los Angeles County District Attorney, seated at a table and holding a typescript, probably during the trial of Thomas Edward Dugger.
Date:: [between 1935-1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Buron Fitts and his legal team. From left to right: Fitts, William Simpson, Joe Scott, Jerry Giesler.
Date:: January 27, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Winthrop O. Gordon, far left, at the counsel table with other attorneys. Buron Fitts sits at the far right, leaned back in his chair.
Date:: January 20, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 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

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