Resource Type: still image / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Subject: Crime - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Adolfo Carsi, who murdered his wife, at the coroner's jury, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Adolfo Carsi seated at the witness stand and looking at the judge at the coroner's jury. Two men are seated behind him. Carsi had strangled his wife, Florence Carsi, because he suspected her of infidelity.
Date:: January 31, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Robert S. James, suspect in Lois Wright morals case and Mary Emma James murder case, and lawyer Samuel Silverman in court, Los Anglels, 1936

Description:: A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, May 28, 1936, James Guilty in Girl Case, Suspect Smiles at Verdict, Jury Convicts Barber on All Three Counts of Morals Offenses. … James … sat stolid and emotionless as a jury decreed him guilty of three separate morals offenses involving his 21-year-old niece. … facing the still more serious charge of murdering his wife last August by rattlesnake venom and drowning …
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Murder suspect Robert S. James sitting on the witness stand with a plan of his house behind him, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Robert S. James sitting in the witness stand with a map of his home behind him. An unidentified man is visible in front of him. He was most likely testifying in his own defense for the murder trial of his wife Mary Emma James. He purportedly had an affair with his niece, which spurred him to tie down his wife and have a rattlesnake bite her, and then later drown her in their fish pond. He was supposedly helped by his friend, ex-sailor Charles H. Hope, who was also charged with murder.
Date:: [circa May 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Los Angeles Park Commission president Mabel V. Socha and Deputy Chief of Police Homer Cross examining counterfeiting equipment, [Los Angeles], 1935

Description:: Mabel V. Socha, holding magnifying glass, and Homer Cross, both seated at table, holding plates for counterfeiting dollar coins, with calendar in background
Date:: March 6, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Jackie Knight and Jo Glenn at Lincoln Heights Jail after being booked on morals charges in Los Angeles, Calif., 1948

Date:: April 12, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Actors Lila Leeds, Robin Ford, Robert Mitchum and Vickie Evans during narcotics raid in Los Angeles, Calif., 1948

Date:: September 2, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Bullet mark on Joan Bennett's Cadillac automobile, Los Angeles, Calif., 1951

Description:: Bennett's husband, film producer Walter Wander, was arrested for assault to commit murder for the shooting. Bennett and Wander were in a divorce suit, where Wander accused agent Jennings Lang of alienating Bennett's affections.
Date:: December 15, 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Los Angeles police officer Joe Aguirre restrains Sherry Kenton, arrested on suspicion of violating State Narcotics Act in 1947

Date:: April 3, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Mary S. Dabelich, wife of murder victim Nicholas F. Dabelich, Los Angeles, 1922

Description:: This photograph, cropped and reversed, appears with Los Angeles Times article, November 6, 1922, "Cafe Owner is Murdered, Crumpled Corpse Found Under Bridge Identified, Widow Comes to Los Angeles to Aid Police, Believe Rich Oaklander Was Killed For Money."
Date:: 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Secretary from the Los Angeles District Attorney's office, exhibits $40,000 worth of opium found concealed in candy box, 1947

Date:: June 5, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

View of grounds and home of Sam Rummel after his murder, Los Angeles, Calif., 1950

Date:: December 12, 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Robert S. James, convicted in Lois Wright morals case and suspect in Mary Emma James murder case, at sentencing, with lawyer Samuel Silverman, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Robert S. James and Samuel Silverman, both in suits and ties, standing, with chalkboard or easel at right, bailiff and another man behind them, man at rolltop desk in foreground, crowded courtroom in background
Date:: June 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

House of W. H. Bowers, intended victim in poison plot case, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:: Close-up of windows of the house of W. H. Bowers in Los Angeles. The photograph was taken in the course of a court proceeding in which his wife, Olive Orr Brugen-Schmidt Bowers, was accused of plotting to poison him with her friend Elmer M. Archer. Olive Bowers used window shade signals to let Archer know if her husband was at home or not. The poison plot was overheard on the 2-party telephone line.
Date:: March 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Patty Hearst in handcuffs, escorted by two women at inmate entrance of Criminal Court Building in Los Angeles, Calif., 1976

Date:: May 28, 1976
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Malmin, John
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Lois Wright, witness in Mary Emma James murder case, with investigator Marjorie Fairchild, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, April 20, 1936, Girl Seized With Uncle, Dictagraph Used by Raiders, Morals Case Arrest Brings Reopening of Fish-Pond Death Inquiry
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Aerial view of two buildings on fire on Avalon Blvd. between 107th and 108th street during Watts Riots, Los Angeles, 1965

Date:: August 15, 1965
1965-08-15
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Fry, George R.
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Robert S. James, suspect in Mary Emma James murder case, walking in hallway, Los Angles, 1935 or 1936

Description:: Robert S. James, in suit and tie, carrying hat and coat, smiling, walking in hallway, with doors and drinking fountain in background
Date:: 1936 or 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Arson investigators in art and music reading room of Los Angeles Central Library, 1986

Date:: September 5, 1986
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Adolfo Carsi, who murdered his wife, at the coroner's jury, Los Angeles, 1935 Carsi

Description:: Adofo Corsi seated in a chair during the coloner's jury proceedings. Carsi had strangled his wife, Florence Carsi, because he suspected her of infidelity.
Date:: January 31, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Angela Davis after Black Panther shootout, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Date:: December 8, 1969
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Robert S. James, convicted in Lois Wright morals case and suspect in Mary Emma James murder case, at sentencing, with lawyer Samuel Silverman, 2 filmstrip images, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Robert S. James' real name was Major Raymond Lisenba. He was known as Robert S. James during his marriage to Mary Emma Busch James and at the time of her death in 1935, and, after her murder by rattlesnake bite and drowning, as "Rattlesnake James."
Date:: June 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Richard Ramirez (aka The Night Stalker) with attorney Joseph Gallegos in Los Angeles, Calif., 1985

Date:: October 10, 1985
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Schneider, Iris
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Men of "bottle gang" gathered outside liquor store in Los Angeles, Calif., 1977

Date:: June 5, 1977
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Meyer, Rick
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Frances Spencer, wife of murder victim Herbert F. Spencer, and about 7 other people, [Los Angeles?], 1931

Description:: This photograph, cropped, appears with Los Angeles Time article, August 6, 1931, Widows at Clark Trial Say Husbands Unarmed, Relicts of Murdered Pair Tell Their Stories, Testimony Deals Blow to Defense; Suspect Remanded to Jail; Other Witnesses Heard
Date:: August 5, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Father of witness displaying wounds from beating during State Senate hearing on narcotics trafficking in Los Angeles, Calif., 1955

Date:: November 19, 1955
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

David Bacon murder case; two men seated at table in rented cottage in Laurel Canyon, Calif., 1943

Date:: September 17, 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

G. Gordon Liddy, in handcuffs, being escorted to Los Angeles Criminal Courts building, 1973

Date:: June 20, 1973
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Adams Pharmacy ledger documenting the purchase of poison by Elmer M. Archer, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:: Ledger documenting the purchase of sodium arsenate for 10 cents by Elmer M. Archer at the Adams Pharmacy in Santa Monica on January 24, 1926. Archer purchased the poison under the name Joe Jacks. Archer was in love with the newlywed Olive Orr Brugen-Schmidt and tried to convince her to poison her new husband, W. H. Bowers.
Date:: March 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Addicts smoking crack in downtown Los Angeles, Calif., 1988

Description:: Drug area in downtown LA, around Alexandria Hotel, 5th & 7th streets and Spring & Broadway.
Date:: April 18, 1988
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Rapping, Anacleto
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Two men in suspected drug deal in Los Angeles, Calif., 1986

Date:: September 21, 1986
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

House of W. H. Bowers, intended victim in poison plot case, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:: A photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Bowers appears with the article "Bride Denies Murder Plot; Says Plan to Poison Husband Was Only Joke; Man Confesses Part After Phone Talk Heard; Husband and Pastor Will be Questioned Today," Los Angeles Times, March 11, 1926
Date:: March 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Manson family members Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkel, Susan Atkins at inmate entrance of courthouse in Los Angeles, Calif., 1973

Date:: February 15, 1973
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Whitney, Fitzgerald, b. 1928
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Lois Wright, witness in Mary Emma James murder case, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Lois Wright, seated, hand at chin, with wall in background
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Kenneth Wade and Frank Ryan charged with beating of nonunion garment worker in Los Angeles, Calif., 1949

Date:: April 16, 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Daniel R. Snyder, murder suspect, in court, [Los Angeles?], 1934

Description:: This photograph, cropped, appears with Los Angeles Times article, December 20, 1934, Figures in Fatal Shooting. Daniel R. Snyder, accused of slaying studio officer, as he appeared in court. Mrs. Ruby Michel, wounded in Ellinger killing, testifies concerning tragedy.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Viola Lueck, witness in Mary Emma James murder case, on witness stand, Los Anglels, 1935

Description:: Viola Lueck, in hat and patterned dress, on witness stand, with Coroner Frank Montfort on bench at left, three men in jury box at right
Date:: August 15, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Law enforcement and/or prosecutorial officials (?) associated with the Mary Skeele kidnapping case, Los Angeles, 1933

Description:: Six law enforcement and/or prosecutorial officials (?) associated with the Mary Skeele kidnapping case, in an office, behind a desk
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Letter from murder victim Fay Sudow to Fred Allen (Alfred W. Allen), 1920

Description:: 2-page handwritten letter, photographed pinned to board, from Fay Sudow, addressed to Fred Allen, 711 Central Bldg., Main and 6th St., Los Angeles, Cal., with 2 envelopes, 1 postmarked Chicago, Ill., Oct 16, 5 PM, 1920, with the logo of Morrison Hotel and Terrace Garden, Chicago, and 1 postmarked Plymouth, Ill., Oct 27, 2 PM, 1920. Fay Sudow's attorney was named Alfred W. Allen, with an office at 485 Central Bldg.
Date:: 1920
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Leslie Van Houten arriving at court for arraignment in retrial for LaBianca murders, Los Angeles, Calif., 1976

Date:: December 27, 1976
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Malmin, John
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

John Rosselli after being released from jail, Los Angeles, 1948

Date:: November 16, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

David Bacon murder case; open telephone book on desk found in rented cottage in Laurel Canyon, Calif., 1943

Date:: September 17, 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Mrs. William Gude and daughter Wendy look through shattered window, Brentwood (Los Angeles), 1950

Date:: February 7, 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Douglas L. Skelly, investment broker convicted of security theft, 1934

Description:: Investment broker Douglas Skelly was tried and convicted of security theft
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Two FBI agents displaying ransom money for kidnapped Frank Sinatra Jr., Calif., 1963

Date:: December 14, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Bombing defendant Earle E. Kynette in court, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Earle E. Kynette, in suit and tie, head bandaged, seated, with six other people partially visible in background
Date:: June 27, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Robert S. James, convicted in Lois Wright morals case and suspect in Mary Emma James murder case, at sentencing, with lawyer Samuel Silverman, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Robert S. James' real name was Major Raymond Lisenba. He was known as Robert S. James during his marriage to Mary Emma Busch James and at the time of her death in 1935, and, after her murder by rattlesnake bite and drowning, as "Rattlesnake James."
Date:: June 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Robert S. James, convicted in Lois Wright morals case and suspect in Mary Emma James murder case, at sentencing, with lawyer Samuel Silverman, 2 filmstrip images, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: These 2 images are duplicated in uclamss_1429_0080 and uclamss_1429_0081
Date:: June 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Robert S. James, convicted in Lois Wright morals case and suspect in Mary Emma James murder case, at sentencing, with lawyer Samuel Silverman, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Robert S. James' real name was Major Raymond Lisenba. He was known as Robert S. James during his marriage to Mary Emma Busch James and at the time of her death in 1935, and, after her murder by rattlesnake bite and drowning, as "Rattlesnake James."
Date:: June 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Black leather bag obtained as evidence in Fay Sudow murder case, Los Angeles, 1920

Description:: Textured black leather bag with handle and clasp at top, flat bottom, on edge of round table with bookcase in background. Bag is wrapped with 2 thin ropes and affixed with address label from Fred W. Wolf to Alfred Allen, and shipping label marked Collect.
Date:: December, 1920
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Kidnapping victim Mary B. Skeele testifying in court, Los Angeles, 1933

Description:: Mary B. Skeele, wife of Walter Skeele, the Professor of Organ and Dean of the College of Music at the University of Southern California was kidnapped in 1933. The ransom was paid and Mrs. Skeele was returned unharmed.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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