Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Names: Wright, Paul A. and Hegi, Walter E., 1901-1968 / Subject: People - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Description:: Captain Walter E. Hegi of the Glendale police dept. (left) with airline official Paul A. Wright early on in the investigation of the double murder of Wright's wife Evelyn and best friend, John Kimmel. A crime to which Wright had confessed. Wright testified that he shot his wife and best friend after finding them in an embrace. In the trial that followed, called the "White Flame" trial by the press, Wright eventually escaped the death pentalty and a prison sentence on an insanity plea, thanks to his lawyer Jerry Giesler
Date:: November 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives