Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Collection: OpenUCLA Collections / Subject: Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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

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

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 camera 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. A tall stack of documents sits in the middle of the table.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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 while interlacing his fingers. Behind and to the right of him, Judge Blake sits up at the bench and also glances to the right. In the foreground at right, a court reporter sits with her back to the camera.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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

Description:: Buron Fitts and his legal team at his perjury trial. From left to right, William E. Simpson, Joe Scott, Fitts, Jerry Giesler.
Date:: January 20, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: In January 1936, District Attorney Buron Fitts was charged with 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. He was prosecuted by Clyde C. Shoemaker and defended by Jerry Giesler, Joseph Scott, and William E. Scott with Winthrop O. Gordon as the attorney aid.
Date:: February 7, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Likely related to the article, "SIFTS PLANS SALE CHARGE: Pacific Powers Watch Move Two Men in Custody and Certain Orientals Sought; Officers to Testify," Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 1936: 1
Date:: March 4, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: One man in hat stands on railing and peers into window while the other one looks out over another railing to the street. The address of the building they are at reads: "1924".
Date:: November 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Related article: “Woes cited by brother: relative charges forgery to kinsman who faces court today,” Los Angeles Times, 11 Jul. 1935: A3.
Date:: July 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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