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Description:: Kearns stands in front of a brick wall looking off into the distance as he holds in his hands a piece of paper.
Date:: February 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: William A. Hudson testifies before a coroner's jury for the murder charges against Busby Berkeley. Berkeley had been the cause for a three-car-collision that resulted in two deaths, possibly due to alcohol he had reportedly imbibed at a cocktail party beforehand. Hudson was a student injured in the crash who testified that he had smelled liquor on Berkeley's breath while speaking to him after the crash.
Date:: [circa December 11, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Hands holding two print photographs of Ruth Attaway, age 16, who died after an illegal abortion.
Date:: August 15, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A court session was held in Good Samaritan Hospital at the bedside of Golda Draper, the waitress who was shot through her back at a café on West Jefferson Street by attorney Donald A. Rothrock, who fired on the waitress because of a perceived slight in service he had received two days prior to the shooting.
Date:: September 23, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Rose Spinelli is believed to have been murdered by her husband William Spinelli.
Date:: December 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of cowboy motion picture extra John Ainsworth Tyacke a.k.a. Johnny Tyke, who was murdered by fellow extra Jerome "Blackjack" Ward in Gower Gulch, the name given to the area near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street where film extras hang out waiting for work. Allegedly, Blackjack shot Tyke with a .45, but many of the hundreds of Gower Gulch extras who came to the trial testified that Tyke had started the fight and was “doped up” at the time. Blackjack entered a plea of not guilty based on self defense and temporary insanity and he was ultimately set free.
Date:: between July 15 and July 18, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Photograph of cowboy motion picture extra John Ainsworth Tyacke a.k.a. Johnny Tyke, who was murdered by fellow extra Jerome "Blackjack" Ward in Gower Gulch, the name given to the area near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street where film extras hang out waiting for work. Allegedly, Blackjack shot Tyke with a .45, but many of the hundreds of Gower Gulch extras who came to the trial testified that Tyke had started the fight and was “doped up” at the time. Blackjack entered a plea of not guilty based on self defense and temporary insanity and he was ultimately set free.
Date:: between July 15 and July 18, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Frank Newland, Jr., was convicted of attempted murder of Lois T. Wade.
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photograph of cafe night manager Lewis M. Blackburn after he chased a man, who brandished a pistol at him and stole money from the cash register, into the arms of radio patrolmen.
Date:: Aug 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Similar photograph appears with the article, "Police Hunt For Stabber," Los Angeles Times, 25 July 1935: A3.
Date:: July 24, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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