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Description:: 21-year-old Louis Rude Payne (right) with District Attorney Buron Fitts at an inquest about Payne's confessed murder of his mother and younger brother with an ax.
Date:: June 6, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: 21-year-old Louis Rude Payne (right) with District Attorney Buron Fitts at an inquest about Payne's confessed murder of his mother and younger brother with an ax.
Date:: June 6, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: 21-year-old Louis Rude Payne (right) with District Attorney Buron Fitts at an inquest about Payne's confessed murder of his mother and younger brother with an ax.
Date:: June 6, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: 21-year-old Louis Rude Payne (right) with District Attorney Buron Fitts at an inquest about Payne's confessed murder of his mother and younger brother with an ax.
Date:: June 6, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: 21-year-old Louis Rude Payne (right) with District Attorney Buron Fitts at an inquest about Payne's confessed murder of his mother and younger brother with an ax.
Date:: June 6, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: 21-year-old Louis Rude Payne (right) with District Attorney Buron Fitts at an inquest about Payne's confessed murder of his mother and younger brother with an ax.
Date:: June 6, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts, second from right, sits with his defense lawyer Jerry Geisler, second from left, along with his chief deputy Robert P. Stewart, far left, and deputy District Attorney, William Simpson.
Date:: 1936-01-16
[circa January 16, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts and Special Prosecutor Clyde Shoemaker, pictured at Fitts' perjury trial, circa January 1936. Dist. Atty Fitts was charged with perjuring himself during testimony to a 1931 grand jury, in regards to real estate transactions carried out by his family. His sister and secretary, Mrs. Berthal Gregory, was also a defendant in this case.
Date:: [circa January, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Fitts was Los Angeles County District Attorney between 1928-1940. He was also Lt. Governor of California 1927-1928. Court case in photo unknown.
Date:: [1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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