Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Subject: Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: From left to right, Roland Swaffield, Buron Fitts, Joseph Scott, Mrs. Berthal Gregory (sometimes spelled "Berthel" in the Los Angeles Times), Jerry Giesler, and unknown, stand in crowded courtroom during Fitts Grand Jury trial for perjury.
Date:: December 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mary B. Skeele, wife of Walter Skeele, the Professor of Organ and Dean of the College of Music at the University of Southern California was kidnapped in 1933. The ransom was paid and Mrs. Skeele was returned unharmed.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A similar photograph of Aimee Semple McPherson on the witness stand is captioned, "Evangelist Quizzed on Film and Marital Affairs Upper picture at the trial of the film contract breach suit shows Superior Judge Yankwich and Aimee Semple McPherson-Hutton. Lower picture was taken at the deposition proceedings--left to right--Dave Hutton, Attorney Benjamin Lewis, Aimee Semple McPherson-Hutton, Attorney Edward A. Adams and Miss Ruth Tuttle, shorthand reporter," Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 1934: A3
Date:: [January 29, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: It was recommended by the court authority that Judge Sewell remain two months in a sanitarium on the grounds of abuse of alcohol.
Date:: [circa October 9, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Howard Van Dorn eventually confessed to kidnapping, leading to the convictions of both he and Luella Pearl Hammer. Both received life sentences. Hammer was unsuccessful in her plea of insanity.
Date:: [between February and April 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Virginia Cherrill pictured sitting, in a wool coat and black hat with a feather stuck through it, poses for a photograph.
Date:: December 18, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Attorney Joseph Scott seated beside a woman and a man in a mostly empty courtroom.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Liberty A. Hill was ultimately convicted of embezzling $75,000 cash evidence in the Morris Levine - Charles H. Crawford case.
Date:: [1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, April 11, 1932, "Richfield Trio on Trial Today, Talbot, Fuller and McKee Will Face Court, Theft of $213,267 From Oil Company Asserted, Ex-Officials Deny Charges; Map Stubborn Fight"
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: George Skouland, City Hall politician under investigation by the Grand Jury for grand theft
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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