Genre: news photographs and cellulose nitrate film / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Subject: Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: This photograph may be associated with the article, “POLICE MATRON ACCUSED IN SLAYING OF OFFICER,” Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 1935: A2.
Date:: October 24, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of Detective Lieutenant Richard J. "Dick" Lucas, one of the officers involved in the arrest of Thirteenth district councilman Carl I. Jacobson for violation of the moral code. The charges against the councilman were later dropped, and Detective Lucas was charged with the conspiracy to "frame" the Councilman. He was also freed of guilt, following which he resigned from the police force.
Date:: [between Aug and Oct, 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to the articles, "'Kidnaper' Faces Accuser; Joe Watts Denies Part of Miss Morris's Story But Admits to Officials He Had Photo Taken." Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 1926; and "Carmel Inquiry Data Due Today; Dep. Dist.-Atty. Ryan to Talk in McPherson Case; Prosecution Ready to Launch Aggressive Attack; Fourteen Witnesses Remain to Present Testimony." Los Angeles Times 4 Oct. 1926: pg. A1.
Date:: [October 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Victor McLaglen, center, sits in the front of a court room with his lawyers. A crowd of people sit in the stands.
Date:: August 9, 1935
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:: Mary Lou Mitchell stands in the hallway of a courthouse or judicial building. She wears a hat and coat, and carries a stack of papers in her right hand. Mitchell is outside a door that partially reads, "Department 7, Marshall F. McComb, Judge [?] Wood, [?] Presiding, [?] Department, [?] at 2 P.M., [?] with clerk.
Date:: October 25, 1935
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

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