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Description:: District Attorney Buron Fitts gives a big smile for a portrait.
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: From left, district attorneys Buron Fitts and William Simpson, special prosecutor William J. Clark (standing) and district attorney Robert P. Stewart in a courtooom during the trial of former attorney Asa Keyes, charged with accepting a bribe from the Julian Petroleum Corporation. The courtroom appears to be relatively empty, with only five other people near the public gallery in the courtroom.
Date:: [1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: From left, district attorneys Buron Fitts and William Simpson, special prosecutor William J. Clark (standing) and district attorney Robert P. Stewart in a courtroom during the trial of former attorney Asa Keyes, charged with accepting a bribe from the Julian Petroleum Corporation. The courtroom appears to be relatively empty, with only five other people near the public gallery in the courtroom.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: From left to right, district attorney Buron Fitts, his brother-in-law George Gregory, his mother Ardell Fitts, and his sister Berthel Gregory, possibly during the siblings' perjury trial.
Date:: [between 1928-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A photograph of Chief of Beverly Hills Police Charles C. Blair, District Attorney Buron Fitts, and lawyer Ernest E. Noon. The three men were involved in the search for kidnapping victim William F. Gettle and the prosecution of the kidnappers after Gettle's safe recovery.Charles C. Blair was the first Chief of Police of Beverly Hills, serving from 1927-1942. Ernest E. Noon was the attorney of the Gettle family. He was intimitely involved with the attempts to recover William F. Gettle, directing via the Los Angeles Times that the kidnappers send any ransom requests to him, as Mrs. Fleeta Gettle was ill with nervous prostration after the kidnapping of her husband and under medical supervision.Buron Fitts was the district attorney of Los Angeles from 1928-1940. Fitts was in charge of co-ordinating the police agencies in their search for Gettle and his kidnappers.
Date:: [circa May, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Buron and Marion Fitts thank the jury after a successful trial.
Date:: February 7, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Buron Fitts, center, smiles and greets his friends after a successful trial.
Date:: February 7, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: District Attorney Buron Fitts and his great-niece, whom he later adopted as his daughter, Mary Lou Spear, at a polling station. Fitts is filling out his ballot.
Date:: [between 1929-1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: District Attorney Buron Fitts with wife, Mrs. Marion Fitts, and great-niece (whom they later adopted as a daughter), Mary Lou Spear, at a polling station. Mr. & Mrs. Fitts drop their ballots into the "General Tickets" ballot box. One woman sits with records book, while another woman and man stand watching.
Date:: [between 1929-1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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