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Description:: Scene from the Albert Dyer murder trial. Dyer, a 32 year old W.P.A crossing guard, confessed to the murders of three Inglewood girls. Dyer admitted to luring Madeline Everett (9), Melba Everett (7), and Jeanette Stephens (8) into the woods on the pretense of helping them catch rabbits and then strangled them in succession. Extra deputy sheriffs were on guard outside the trial to control the crowds of angry and thrill-seeking people they expected would come to witness the trial of this heinous crime. Dyer was sentenced to death after the jury's two day debate. On September 16, 1938 at San Quentin Prison, Dyer was one of the last people to be hung in the state of California
Date:: August 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Scene from the Albert Dyer murder trial. Dyer, a 32 year old W.P.A crossing guard, confessed to the murders of three Inglewood girls. Dyer admitted to luring Madeline Everett (9), Melba Everett (7), and Jeanette Stephens (8) into the woods on the pretense of helping them catch rabbits and then strangled them in succession. Extra deputy sheriffs were on guard outside the trial to control the crowds of angry and thrill-seeking people they expected would come to witness the trial of this heinous crime. Dyer was sentenced to death after the jury's two day debate. On September 16, 1938 at San Quentin Prison, Dyer was one of the last people to be hung in the state of California
Date:: August 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mrs. Ella Peskay standing in a courtroom wearing a fur-collared coat and hat, it is unclear what this is in relation to.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Werner, former Los Angeles City Attorney 1929-1933. 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:: 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:: An unidentified man looks on as Los Angeles judges Joseph L. Call and Cecil D. Holland, seated from left to right, convene in a courtroom.
Date:: [1934?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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