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Detectives Thad Brown and George Hill and another man investigate Fred La Mar's accidental fall at the Hotel Rosslyn, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Photograph of Detective Lieutenants Thad Brown and George Hill looking out of a window and down a light well at the Rosslyn Hotel annex. Another man (L) reaches a leg out of a facing window, reenacting the actions of Fred La Mar, who fell while executing a similar move.
Date:
August 12, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Detectives Thad Brown and George Hill and another man investigate Fred La Mar's accidental fall at the Hotel Rosslyn, Los Angeles, 1935

Donna Emptage standing in the backroom of a building previously rented by attempted kidnapper Leroy Anderson, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Donna Emptage, who unwittingly rented the hideout of Leroy Anderson (alias Jack Williams), attempted kidnapper of millionaire San Marino banker Herbert D. Ivey. Emptage stands in a room with an iron-frame bed and other furnishings. This room was located in the rear of the storefront building previously rented by kidnapper Anderson.
Date:
October 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Donna Emptage standing in the backroom of a building previously rented by attempted kidnapper Leroy Anderson, Los Angeles, 1935

James F. Culver, young Kentuckian transient and suspect in the murder of Ethel E. Whittaker. Circa April 20, 1936.

Description:
Photograph of James Fagan Culver, 23-year-old transient from Kentucky and suspect in the murder of Mrs. Ethel Whittaker. Mrs. Whittaker was shot in a Wilshire district hotel room in what police believed to be a fake hold-up scenario. Samuel T. Whittaker, husband of the murdered woman, was also held as a suspect.According to Culver, Samuel Whittaker cultivated a friendship with Culver and gave him money for food and shelter over several weeks' time. Then, Whittaker asked Culver to purchase a gun and gave him the money to do so. He was then instructed to go to a specific place at an appointed time and stage a robbery. According to Culver, when he entered the Whittaker's South Alvarado St. apartment, both Samuel and Ethel Whittaker were present. Culver claims to have shot his gun by accident only after being shot himself, presumably by Whittaker. Ethel Whittaker was shot four times, including once from the back. When police retrieved the gun used by Culver, only three chambers were empty.The jury eventually ruled that Whittaker had arranged the elaborate plot to kill his wife in order to collect the insurance on her life. Samuel Whittaker was convicted of the murder of his wife, as well as deadly assault on James Culver, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Whittaker died of a heart attack five days after arriving at the San Quentin penitentiary.Culver himself pled guilty to second-degree murder for his part in the plot against Ethel Whittaker, and received a sentence of five years to life imprisonment.
Date:
[circa April 20, 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
James F. Culver, young Kentuckian transient and suspect in the murder of Ethel E. Whittaker. Circa April 20, 1936.

Jury for Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts 1936 perjury trial, circa January 16, 1936.

Description:
Photograph of the jury in Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts' 1936 perjury trial. Pictured are Mrs. Camilla Markey of Altadena, Miss Lottie B. Connelly of Los Angeles, Mrs Harriet Bliss of Santa Monica, Mr. Stanfel S. Forbes Sr. of Los Angeles, Mrs. Josephine Fox of Los Angeles, Mrs. Louise J. Boaz of Los Angeles, Mr. William Douglas of Los Angeles, Mr. Allen A. Bunnell of Pasadena, Mrs. Stella L. Duryea of Los Angeles, Mrs. Louise S. Harwood of Altadena, and Mrs. Edith Isakson of Los Angeles.
Date:
[circa January 16, 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Jury for Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts 1936 perjury trial, circa January 16, 1936.

Jury for Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts 1936 perjury trial, circa January 16, 1936.

Description:
Photograph of the jury in Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts' 1936 perjury trial. Pictured are Mrs. Camilla Markey of Altadena, Miss Lottie B. Connelly of Los Angeles, Mrs Harriet Bliss of Santa Monica, Mr. Stanfel S. Forbes Sr. of Los Angeles, Mrs. Josephine Fox of Los Angeles, Mrs. Louise J. Boaz of Los Angeles, Mr. William Douglas of Los Angelse, Mr. Allen A. Bunnell of Pasadena, Mrs. Stella L. Duryea of Los Angeles, Mrs. Louise S. Harwood of Altadena, and Mrs. Edith Isakson of Los Angeles.
Date:
[circa January 16, 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Jury for Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts 1936 perjury trial, circa January 16, 1936.

Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts and Special Prosecutor Clyde Shoemaker, at Fitts' 1936 perjury trial.

Description:
Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts and Special Prosecutor Clyde Shoemaker, pictured at Fitts' perjury trial, circa January 1936. Dist. Atty Fitts was charged with perjuring himself during testimony to a 1931 grand jury, in regards to real estate transactions carried out by his family. His sister and secretary, Mrs. Berthal Gregory, was also a defendant in this case.
Date:
[circa January, 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts and Special Prosecutor Clyde Shoemaker, at Fitts' 1936 perjury trial.

Mrs. Hazel Bedlord Glab appears in court to testify in her defense, in the murder trial of John I. Glab. March 16, 1936

Description:
Mrs. Hazel Belford Glab appears in court to give testimony in her defense on March 16, 1936. Glab was accused of the 1928 murder of her husband, pharmacist John I. Glab. Mrs. Glab had been only recently convicted of forging the will of her late fiancee, wealthy manufacturer Albert Cheney, who died in Las Vegas before the two could be wed. John I. Glab was shot in the home he and Hazel Glab shared, on the evening of June 18, 1928. Mrs. Glab contested that her husband had been shot by her former lover, policeman W. R. McIntyre, and that she had been home listening to the radio with her niece the eve of the murder and had not heard the shot. Glab had been married to the pharmacist for only 16 months.Hazel Glab was convicted of second-degree murder on March 21, 1936.
Date:
March 16, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Mrs. Hazel Bedlord Glab appears in court to testify in her defense, in the murder trial of John I. Glab. March 16, 1936

Mrs. Hazel Belford Glab appears in court to testify in her defense, in the murder trial of John I. Glab. March 16, 1936

Description:
Mrs. Hazel Belford Glab appears in court to give testimony in her defense on March 16, 1936. Glab was accused of the 1928 murder of her husband, pharmacist John I. Glab. Mrs. Glab had been only recently convicted of forging the will of her late fiancee, wealthy manufacturer Albert Cheney, who died in Las Vegas before the two could be wed. John I. Glab was shot in the home he and Hazel Glab shared, on the evening of June 18, 1928. Mrs. Glab contested that her husband had been shot by her former lover, policeman W. R. McIntyre, and that she had been home listening to the radio with her niece the eve of the murder and had not heard the shot. Glab had been married to the pharmacist for only 16 months.Hazel Glab was convicted of second-degree murder on March 21, 1936.
Date:
March 16, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Mrs. Hazel Belford Glab appears in court to testify in her defense, in the murder trial of John I. Glab. March 16, 1936

Mrs. Hazel Belford Glab appears in court to testify in her defense, in the murder trial of John I. Glab. March 16, 1936

Description:
Mrs. Hazel Belford Glab appears in court to give testimony in her defense on March 16, 1936. Glab was accused of the 1928 murder of her husband, pharmacist John I. Glab. Mrs. Glab had been only recently convicted of forging the will of her late fiancee, wealthy manufacturer Albert Cheney, who died in Las Vegas before the two could be wed. John I. Glab was shot in the home he and Hazel Glab shared, on the evening of June 18, 1928. Mrs. Glab contested that her husband had been shot by her former lover, policeman W. R. McIntyre, and that she had been home listening to the radio with her niece the eve of the murder and had not heard the shot. Glab had been married to the pharmacist for only 16 months.Hazel Glab was convicted of second-degree murder on March 21, 1936.
Date:
March 16, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Mrs. Hazel Belford Glab appears in court to testify in her defense, in the murder trial of John I. Glab. March 16, 1936

Mrs. Hazel Belford Glab with Clara Steeger and attorney S. S. Hahn, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Glab was accused of the 1928 murder of her husband, pharmacist John I. Glab. Mrs. Glab had been only recently convicted of forging the will of her late fiancee, wealthy manufacturer Albert Cheney, who died in Las Vegas before the two could be wed. John I. Glab was shot in the home he and Hazel Glab shared, on the evening of June 18, 1928. Mrs. Glab contested that her husband had been shot by her former lover, policeman W. R. McIntyre, and that she had been home listening to the radio with her niece the eve of the murder and had not heard the shot. Glab had been married to the pharmacist for only 16 months. Hazel Glab was convicted of second-degree murder on March 21, 1936.
Date:
1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Mrs. Hazel Belford Glab with Clara Steeger and attorney S. S. Hahn, Los Angeles, 1935