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Description:: Spectators watch as a fireman hoses down flames from a forest fire in Glendale's Verdugo Woodlands and Rossmoyne sections. 2500 acres burned but the firemen were able to keep the blaze from damaging any of the nearby homes. Firemen battled the flames for ten hours and dealt with high winds, which made the situation more dangerous
Date:: December 20, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Smoke rises over a forest fire in Glendale's Verdugo Woodlands and Rossmoyne sections. 2500 acres burned, but firemen we able to keep the blaze from damaging any of the nearby homes. Firemen battled the flames for ten hours and dealt with high winds, which made the situation more dangerous
Date:: December 20, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Piano bench where Evelyn Wright and John B. Kimmel were sitting before they were fatally shot by Evelyn's husband, Paul A. Wright. There appears to be a pool of blood beneath the bench. Wright confessed to shooting his wife and best friend, John Kimmel, after finding the two in an embrace on the piano bench in his home. The trial that followed was named the "white flame" trial by the press and Wright was eventually let off on an insanity plea, thanks to his lawyer, Jerry Giesler
Date:: November 10, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Police Captain J.H. Carter inspects the piano bench where Evelyn Wright and John B. Kimmel were sitting before they were fatally shot by Evelyn's husband, Paul A. Wright. Wright confessed to shooting his wife and best friend, John Kimmel, after finding the two in an embrace on the piano bench in his home. The trial that followed was named the "white flame" trial by the press and Wright was eventually let off on an insanity plea, thanks to his lawyer, Jerry Giesler
Date:: November 10, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The home of Paul A. Wright, who is accused of the double murder of his wife, Evelyn, and best friend, John B. Kimmel. Wright confessed to shooting the pair after finding them in an embrace in his home. The trial that followed was named the "white flame" trial by the press and Wright was eventually let off on an insanity plea, thanks to his lawyer, Jerry Giesler
Date:: November 10, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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