Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives / Subject: Crime and People - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Robert S. James standing between two unidentified men in court. 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 Daily News Negatives

Description:: John Frank Reavis, 26-year-old trombone player and candy salesman, in the court anteroom awaiting the jury’s decision to indict him in the murder of 17-year-old B-girl Alice “Jerry” Burns. Case investigating officers Det. Lt. Miles Ledbetter and Det. Lt. Lloyd Hurst are in the background. Reavis was indicted and after trial received a second-degree sentence of five years to life in San Quentin. His eye and left hand are bandaged as the result of a fight he had prior to his arrest
Date:: February 28, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: John Frank Reavis, 26-year-old trombone player and candy salesman, in the court anteroom awaiting the jury's decision to indict him in the murder of 17-year-old B-girl Alice “Jerry” Burns. Reavis was indicted and after trial received a second-degree sentence of five years to life in San Quentin. His eye and left hand are bandaged as the result of a fight he had prior to his arrest
Date:: February 28, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Ed V. Turner after being convicted of running an off-shore gambling ship.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Betty Flay Hardaker sits during questioning done by Dr. Paul De River, police psychiatrist, at the Los Angeles County Jail. Mrs. Hardaker was convicted of murdering her 5 year old daugher, Geraldine Hardaker, in a Montebello park washroom. The jury convicted her of committing the crime while of unsound mind.
Date:: February 23, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: New York socialite Henry L. Satterlee. Satterlee was brought in for questioning as a suspect for the Inglewood Everett-Stephens murders. Albert Dyer, a crossing guard, later confessed to the crime.
Date:: [circa July 3, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Police officer stands with R.F. McGarry, member of the Black Legion secret society. Black Legion was an organization that had ties to the Ku Klux Klan and operated mainly in Detroit, Michigan in the 1930s. The organization targeted African-Americans and slayed Silas Coleman on May 25, 1935.
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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