Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Subject: 3 selected - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Detective Lieutenant Ray Giese, Los Angeles County District Attorney Buron Fitts, and two unidentified men examine the hands of 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

Description:: Deputy Prosecutor L.C. Avery poses (on the left) with Judge Thomas L. Ambrose in a courtroom, possibly to do with the November 1934 election race for the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Date:: [1934?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Werner, former Los Angeles City Attorney 1929-1933, entering court. Photo possibly from his defense of William Freelove and Howard J. Rile in the Beverly Hills “Lottery Trial” in October, 1935
Date:: [October, 1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Werner, former Los Angeles City Attorney 1929-1933, in elevator. Others in photo unknown. Photo possibly from his defense of William Freelove and Howard J. Rile in the Beverly Hills “Lottery Trial” in October, 1935.
Date:: [October, 1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Attorney A. Brigham Rose (seated left) and county grand jury member Clifford E. Clinton in the courtroom. Rose and Clinton, along with Clinton's fellow grand jury member Harry L. Ferguson and Rose's legal secretary Pauline Huff were charged with contempt when they allegedly withheld information regarding Clinton's investigation of vice and gambling in Los Angeles county. Superior Judge Wilson dropped the charges, calling them legally insufficient. An attempt to renew the citations of contempt was quickly abandoned when Rose, Clifford, Ferguson, and Huff finally took the stand to testify.
Date:: between November 30 and December 7, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson with her former nurse Ella Nordin and her business manager Giles Knight in the office of attorney Arndt. McPherson's former attorney Jacob Moidel had pressed a suit against her accusing her of illegally discharging him, which she contended with accusations that Moidel had attempted to force her to resign from her position at her church. Nordin and Knight were to give testimony about threatening messages received from Moidel.
Date:: [circa October 30, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Rheba Crawford with her attorney Joseph Fainer and others, including Willedd Andrews, attorney for Aimee McPherson Semple. Crawford had been dismissed from her post of associate pastor of Angelus Temple by Aimee Semple McPherson, an action which she contested due to specifications in her contract. Crawford is dead center, with Joseph Fainer to her right.
Date:: [circa November 18, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Airline executive Paul A. Wright, defendant the "white flame" double homicide trial, photographed at his trial conferring with an attorney. Wright was charged with the shooting deaths of his wife Evelyn and best friend John Kimmel, whom he claimed to have caught in an "inappropriate" embrace in the Wright home.Wright's defense team, led by famed Los Angeles defense attorney Jerry Giesler, argued that Wright was not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury found Wright guilty of two counts of manslaughter, and subsequently ruled that he had been insane at his sanity trial.
Date:: [between January 17-February 18, 1983]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Photo related to November 1935 United States Senate's Justice Administration Committee on the controversies surrounding the bankruptcy of Fox West Coast Theaters. Charles L Rawlins was the attorney for the receiver and trustees of the Arizona Edison Company, which was involved in the case.
Date:: November 20, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Taken during Branting’s trip to Los Angeles from Stockholm to lecture about the rising Nazi threat. Her trip was sponsored by the World Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism. She was welcomed to Los Angeles by a group headed by Judge Lindsey. Branting and Lindsey were known figures on social reform issues in their respective nations. Branting’s father was multiple-time Swedish Prime Minister Hjalmar Branting.
Date:: [November 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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