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Description:: Detective Lieutenant Ray Giese and Los Angeles County District Attorney Buron Fitts examine soiled clothing possibly owned by 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:: District attorney Buron Fitts and his sister Mrs. Berthal Gregory appear with their attorneys Joseph Scott and Jerry Giesler to contend the charges of perjury brought against them by the grand jury. From left to right, standing, Buron Fitts, Joseph Scott, Mrs. Berthal Gregory, and Jerry Giesler.
Date:: [circa November 2, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: District Attorney Buron Fitts meets with his advisors over the charges of perjury brought against him by the grand jury. From left to right in the front sits Buron Fitts and attorney Joseph Scott, and in the back stand attorneys Jerry Giesler, Jack Gilchrist, and Harold Judson.
Date:: [circa November 2, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Jury foreman John P. Buckley at the Los Angeles County Grandy Jury trial where District Attorney Buron Fitts was indicted on charges of perjury and bribery.
Date:: December 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Detectives Miles Ledbetter and Thad Brown question Edward E. Holmes over the unexpected murder of his wife Mrs. Celia L. Holmes. From left to right, Miles Ledbetter, Edward E. Holmes, and Thad Brown.
Date:: January 21, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A photograph of Sidney T. Graves as he awaited transfer from the Los Angeles County Jail to San Quentin Penitentiary. Graves was convicted of bribery a year before, after accepting a sum of $80,000 in connection with the high San Gabriel dam project. At that time, Graves had been a county Supervisor. He was sentenced to one to fourteen years imprisonment for his crime.The other men in the photo are unidentified. Graves is seated, right.
Date:: March 30, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Louis Payne covers his face with his hands and his hankerchief at his inquest, with father Lucius F. Payne at his side.Louis Rude Payne, 21 years of age, used a camping axe to kill his mother, Carrie L. Payne, and 15-year-old brother Robert in their Westwood mansion home. Louis R. Payne turned himself in for the killings of his mother and brother four to five days after their deaths, at a Huntington Beach police station. When he turned himself in, detectives found on his person both a letter and a telegram addressed to his father Lucius Payne, a St. Louis businessman, confessing to the crime, apologizing for his actions, and explaning that he did not know what impulse it was that drove him to the murders.Payne was convicted of the two murders, but found to be insane at the time of the crimes. He was confined to psychiatric treatment at the Mendocino State Hospital at Talmadge, in Mendocino County, CA. His father stood by him throughout his trial and conviction.
Date:: June 6, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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