Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives / Subject: People and Legal - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Detective Joe Filkas questions winter sports coach at USC Ernest LaValle over the murder of his friend Mrs. Celia L. Holmes.
Date:: [circa January 29, 1935]
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Sol Zemansky at the grandy jury trial on gambling conditions in Los Angeles. Zemansky refused to testify voluntarily at the trial and was later subpoenaed to testify. Zemansky was businessman who owned pawn shops and loan companies, including Provident Loan Association.
Date:: January 29, 1935
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Milton "Farmer" Page pictured by a telephone during the grand jury trial on gambling operations in Los Angeles County. Page was summoned as a witness and refused to testify.
Date:: 1935
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Moe Morton pictured by a telephone during the grand jury trial on gambling operations in Los Angeles County. Morton was summoned as a witness due to his association with the Clover Club.
Date:: 1935
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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
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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]
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Herman E. Hubler and his wife Anna L. Hubler, who are accused of involvement in a theater bank night fraud scandal. The couple convinced numerous community theaters to use their 14-year-old daughter Blanche, known as Goldilocks, to pull the winning ticket in the bank night lottery. Goldilocks would palm a fake ticket and the winner would be one of the Hubler's accomplices, Alexander Szymanski or Roy Keown. The defendants admitted to winning thousands of dollars through the scandal.
Date:: between December 24 and 27, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Herman E. Hubler and his wife Anna L. Hubler, who are accused of involvement in a theater bank night fraud scandal. The couple convinced numerous community theaters to use their 14-year-old daughter Blanche, known as Goldilocks, to pull the winning ticket in the bank night lottery. Goldilocks would palm a fake ticket and the winner would be one of the Hubler's accomplices, Alexander Szymanski or Roy Keown. The defendants admitted to winning thousands of dollars through the scandal.
Date:: between December 24 and 27, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Famed director and choreographer Busby Berkeley attending court to face three murder charges after he caused a car accident that resulted in fatalities after leaving a cocktail party. Witnesses reported smelling alcohol on Berkeley's breath at the time.
Date:: [circa December 9, 1935]
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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