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

Description:: John Frank Reavis, 26-year-old trombone player and candy salesman, at his trial for the murder of 17-year-old B-girl Alice “Jerry” Burns. Reavis confessed to the murder but said that he was in a blind rage when he did it and didn’t know what he was doing. Reavis 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:: May 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Harlan Bunker lays next to the body of his murdered daughter, Marilyn Bunker. Marilyn was shot by 17-year-old Donald Rogers, also known as Donald Fehrenschild, while she was playing on a hill with her little brother and other children. Rogers shot at the children from the upstairs window of his home. However, Rogers insisted that he was trying to shoot doves he had seen on the hillside.
Date:: February 15, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Walter A. Smith sits in court during his trial for negligent homicide. Smith was involved in the traffic death of Charles M. Daneri. The charges against Smith were dismissed when the judge ruled the accident was unavoidable.
Date:: March 26, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Walter A. Smith in court during his trial for negligent homicide. Smith was involved in the traffic death of Charles M. Daneri. The charges against Smith were dismissed when the judge ruled the accident was unavoidable.
Date:: March 26, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Ruth Reis and Stanley G. Reis wait to provide testimony during the murder trial for Dr. George K. Dazey who was accused of murdering his wife. The married couple testified that Dr. Dazey often treated his wife cruelly. Mrs. Dazey was found dead as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning and her death was originally ruled a suicide. However, Dr. Dazey was later indicted by a county grand jury for the murder of his wife. Dr. Dazey was eventually acquitted of the charge of slaying his wife.
Date:: February 14, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Ruth Reis and Stanley G. Reis wait to provide testimony during the murder trial for Dr. George K. Dazey who was accused of murdering his wife. The married couple testified that Dr. Dazey often treated his wife cruelly. Mrs. Dazey was found dead as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning and her death was originally ruled a suicide. However, Dr. Dazey was later indicted by a county grand jury for the murder of his wife. Dr. Dazey was eventually acquitted of the charge of slaying his wife.
Date:: February 14, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mrs. Eva Sparks waits to provide testimony during the murder trial for Dr. George K. Dazey who was accused of murdering his wife. Mrs. Dazey was found dead as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning and her death was originally ruled a suicide. However, Dr. Dazey was later indicted by a county grand jury for the murder of his wife. Dr. Dazey was eventually acquitted of the charge of slaying his wife.
Date:: February 14, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Jury and alternate jurors chosen for the William Bonelli liquor license bribe trial. Bonelli, along with at least six other government officials, is linked to a liquor license pay-off scandal to extort money from liquor retailers under threat of causing them to lose their liquor license
Date:: February 19, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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