Genre: glass plate negatives / Subject: Witnesses--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Oda Aument seated in a chair with her hands in her lap. She wears an overcoat, hat, and gloves. She smiles warmly and looks to the left. Oda Aument was the niece of mining engineer Jacob Charles Denton. Denton was murdered by Louise Peete in 1920, a crime for which Peete received a sentencing of life in prison in 1921. Aument aided in this sentencing with her particularly damning testimony. Reported on in "Denton Heiress to Take Stand: Due to Testify Tomorrow in Trial of Mrs. Peete" Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 1921: I10 and in "Woman's Testimony Hits Hardest at Mrs. Peete: Mrs. Aument State's Star Witness of Day at the Murder Trial; Bloody Rope to be Shown Today," Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 1921: II1.
Date:: [circa January-February 1921]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Councilman Carl Jacobson seated at a witness stand in a courtroom. The photograph might relate to the event reported in "GRAND JURY SUBPOENAS POLITICIANS: Randall and Jacobson, ex-Councilmen, Called for City Affairs Inquiry," Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 1933: A1.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Clara Phillips was charged with the murder of Alberta Meadows.
Date:: 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Oda Aument seated in a chair with her hands in her lap. She wears an overcoat, hat, and gloves. She smiles warmly and looks to the left. Oda Aument was the niece of mining engineer Jacob Charles Denton. Denton was murdered by Louise Peete in 1920, a crime for which Peete received a sentencing of life in prison in 1921. Aument aided in this sentencing with her particularly damning testimony. Reported on in "Denton Heiress to Take Stand: Due to Testify Tomorrow in Trial of Mrs. Peete" Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 1921: I10 and in "Woman's Testimony Hits Hardest at Mrs. Peete: Mrs. Aument State's Star Witness of Day at the Murder Trial; Bloody Rope to be Shown Today," Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 1921: II1.
Date:: [circa January-February 1921]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Reported in "Kelly Trial on Tomorrow," Los Angeles Times, 8 May 1927: B12. and "Paul Kelly Will Testify Today in Trial of Dorothy Mackaye," Los Angeles Times, 21 Jun. 1927: A2.
Date:: 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Movie-house owner Alexander Pantages was accused of rape by dancer Eunice Pringle. The sensational 1929 Pantages trial included perjurious testimony by Garland Biffle, a law-book salesman. Biffle and his wife Floy Biffle were the only witnesses called by the defense. Reported in "Biffle's Trial Nearing Close: Fate of Pantages' Witnesses in Jury's Hands Today, Wife Defends Book Agent in Perjury Case, Tells of Seeing Dunaev and Miss Pringle Together," Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 1929: A5.
Date:: [between November-December 1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: John Rettenger takes the stand during bribery case of district attorney Asa Keyes, indicating the size of the roll of bills that were allegedly exchanged between Asa Keyes and Ben Getzoff. Photo appears with the article "'Roll of Money Was That Thick,'" Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 1929: 2.
Date:: January 17, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: John Rettenger takes the stand during bribery case of district attorney Asa Keyes, indicating the size of the roll of bills that were allegedly exchanged between Asa Keyes and Ben Getzoff. A similar photograph apears with the article "'Roll of Money Was That Thick,'" Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 1929: 2.
Date:: January 17, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mrs. Asa Keyes testifies from the witness stand at the bribery trial of Asa Keyes. Reported in "Wife of Keyes may face bribe case jury today," Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 1929.
Date:: January 24, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mrs. Asa Keyes testifies from the witness stand at the bribery trial of Asa Keyes. Reported in "Wife of Keyes may face bribe case jury today," Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 1929.
Date:: January 24, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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