Genre: news photographs / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Subject: Lawyers--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Detective Lieutenant Ray Giese, Los Angeles County District Attorney Buron Fitts, and two unidentified men examine the hands of Thomas Edward Dugger. Dugger, known as "Ape Man", was convicted of eleven felonies related to the robbery, kidnapings, and assault of three women. Dugger was indicted on April 4, 1935 and sentenced to death by the Supreme Court on February 18, 1936.
Date:: Between 1935-1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Deputy Prosecutor L.C. Avery poses (on the left) with Judge Thomas L. Ambrose in a courtroom, possibly to do with the November 1934 election race for the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Date:: [1934?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Deputy Sheriff Contreras and defense lawyer Werner look at a dart game, an exhibit at the “Lottery Trial” of William Freelove and Howard J. Rile. Other man unknown.
Date:: [October 9, 1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Werner, former Los Angeles City Attorney 1929-1933, entering court. Photo possibly from his defense of William Freelove and Howard J. Rile in the Beverly Hills “Lottery Trial” in October, 1935
Date:: [October, 1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Werner, former Los Angeles City Attorney 1929-1933, in elevator. Others in photo unknown. Photo possibly from his defense of William Freelove and Howard J. Rile in the Beverly Hills “Lottery Trial” in October, 1935.
Date:: [October, 1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Airline official Paul A. Wright (standing right) with his attorney Jerry Giesler. Wright confessed to the double murder of his wife, Evelyn and best friend, John Kimmel. Wright said he shot the pair after finding them in an embrace in his home. 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
Date:: between November 9, 1937 and February 16, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Paul A. Wright (arms folded center) with his lawyer Jerry Giesler (left of Wright) at an inquest for Wright, who is accused of the murder of his wife, Evelyn, and best friend, John Kimmel. Wright confessed to shooting the pair in a fit of "white hot rage" after finding them in an embrace in his home. After the inquest, complaints were signed against Wright for the two deaths. A trial, called the "white flame" trial by the press, followed in which Wright was eventually let off on an insanity plea
Date:: November 12, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Attorney A. Brigham Rose (seated left) and county grand jury member Clifford E. Clinton in the courtroom. Rose and Clinton, along with Clinton's fellow grand jury member Harry L. Ferguson and Rose's legal secretary Pauline Huff were charged with contempt when they allegedly withheld information regarding Clinton's investigation of vice and gambling in Los Angeles county. Superior Judge Wilson dropped the charges, calling them legally insufficient. An attempt to renew the citations of contempt was quickly abandoned when Rose, Clifford, Ferguson, and Huff finally took the stand to testify.
Date:: between November 30 and December 7, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Former F.B.I. chief Joseph E. P. Dunn with attorneys Otto Christensen and Alfred MacDonald during an investigation of the feud between former law partners Col. William H. Neblett and Senator William Gibbs McAdoo
Date:: March 24, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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