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Description:: Mrs. Elsie Hinman Bush entering court during a divorce battle with her ex-husband, former Superior Court Judge Guy F. Bush. The couple was married on Christmas Day 1939 in Las Vegas then separated three days later. Judge Bush filed for divorce against his wife citing a charge of cruelty then Mrs. Bush counter-filed with the same charge; neither party described their charge. It was the 3rd marriage for Mrs. Bush and the 4th for Judge Bush.
Date:: March 4, 1940
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:: Betty Flay Hardaker on trial at the inquest conducted by Deputy Coroner Frank Monfort. 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:: Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson during a trial in which she testified against her daughter Roberta, who had taken a $150,000 slander action against Willedd Andrews. Standing is attorney Joe Fainer, counsel for Roberta.
Date:: [April 15, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Myrtle Takaoka and her brother Hal Takaoka in court at a preliminary hearing involving the murder of their dancer sister, Midi Takaoka. Judge Irvin Taplin was presiding. The dancer's throat was cut by her jilted lover, waiter Raymond Johnson. Johnson later was sentenced to life in prison.
Date:: August 19, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Myrtle Takaoka and her brother Hal Takaoka in court at a preliminary hearing involving the murder of their dancer sister, Midi Takaoka. Judge Irvin Taplin was presiding. The dancer's throat was cut by her jilted lover, waiter Raymond Johnson. Johnson later was sentenced to life in prison.
Date:: August 19, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Hal Takaoka testifying on the witness stand about the murder of his sister, dancer Midi Takaoka. Judge Irvin Taplin was presiding. The dancer's throat was cut by her jilted lover, waiter Raymond Johnson. Johnson later was sentenced to life in prison.
Date:: August 19, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Unidentified hearing in courtroom. One man standing, possibly testifying as a witness. On the table are small model cars and a small figure of a man.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Chamber of Commerce ladies chastising Dick Russell for the speeding ticket he received from motorcycle officer Dick Barlow during a planned race between an automobile and a bus. The race was part of a "Don't be April fools, obey Traffic rules" campaign to prove that safe driving always prospers. Russell sped and disobeyed traffic laws in the automobile and almost beat safe driver Frank Lampley's bus full of Chamber of Commerce ladies, until the officer intervened.
Date:: April 1, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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