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

Description:: Robert S. James sitting in the witness stand with a map of his home behind him. An unidentified man is visible in front of him. He was most likely testifying in his own defense for the murder trial of his wife Mary Emma James. He purportedly had an affair with his niece, which spurred him to tie down his wife and have a rattlesnake bite her, and then later drown her in their fish pond. He was supposedly helped by his friend, ex-sailor Charles H. Hope, who was also charged with murder.
Date:: [circa May 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Robert S. James, in suit and tie, on witness stand, with Coroner Frank Montfort on bench at left, three men in jury box partially visible at right
Date:: August 15, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Robert S. James and Samuel Silverman, both in suits and ties, standing, with chalkboard or easel at right, bailiff and another man behind them, man at rolltop desk in foreground, crowded courtroom in background
Date:: June 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Adofo Corsi seated in a chair during the coloner's jury proceedings. Carsi had strangled his wife, Florence Carsi, because he suspected her of infidelity.
Date:: January 31, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Robert S. James' real name was Major Raymond Lisenba. He was known as Robert S. James during his marriage to Mary Emma Busch James and at the time of her death in 1935, and, after her murder by rattlesnake bite and drowning, as "Rattlesnake James."
Date:: June 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Fletcher Bowron, Superior Court Judge (1926-1938) presiding in his courtroom
Date:: [between 1926-1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Probably related to Los Angeles Time article, March 2, 1929, Shuler Takes Defense Stand, Pastor Denies Intending Slur at Catholic Order, Preacher Loses Two Moves in Criminal Libel Trial, Cross-Examination Faced at Session This Morning
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Jerry six, an investigator who had formerly worked for the Los Angeles District Attorney, was sought to testify before the Grand Jury in the investigation of Edgar Dudley
Date:: September 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Two men, seated, one covering his face with his hand, with about eight people, mostly men, seated behind, with block wall in background
Date:: 1930-1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, February 10, 1933, Net Tightens on Couple in Skeele Kidnap Case, Ransom Note Typewriter Found; Man Suspect Ex-Convict; Grand Jury Action Sought
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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