Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Names: Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: District Attorney Buron Fitts(rear left) and his sister Mrs. Berthal Gregory(rear middle) appear with their attorneys (front, left to right) Roland Swaffield, Walter K. Tuller, Joseph Scott, Jerry Giesler, and Jack Gilchrist(rear right) to contend with perjury charges made against them by the grand jury.
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, Buron Fitts, attorney Joseph Scott, and in the back, attorneys Jerry Giesler, Jack Gilchrist, and Harold Judson.
Date:: [circa November 2, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: District Attorney Buron Fitts and his sister Mrs. Berthal Gregory appear in a crowded courtroom with Mrs. Marion Fitts and their attorneys Joseph Scott and Jerry Giesler. Seated left to right is Buron Fitts, Mrs. Marion Fitts, and Berthal Gregory. Standing in the back, left to right, is Joseph Scott and Jerry Giesler.
Date:: [circa November 2, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Most likely related to the investigation into an attempted extortion plot against La Rue by a married couple
Date:: [October 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Detective Lieutenant Ray Giese, Los Angeles County District Attorney Buron Fitts, and two unidentified men examine the hands of 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:: 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

Description:: District Attorney Buron Fitts examining his automobile after recovering from being shot in the elbow by a mystery assailant. A reward was immediately offered for the identity of the would-be assassin.
Date:: [circa March 10, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: District Attorney Buron Fitts and his sister Mrs. Berthal Gregory appear in a crowded courtroom with his wife Marion Fitts and their attorneys. Seated, left to right, is Buron Fitts, Mrs. Marion Fitts, and Mrs. Berthal Gregory. Standing in the back, left to right, is Jerry Giesler, Joseph Scott, Roland Swaffield, Harold Judson, and Jack Gilchrist.
Date:: [circa November 2, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: District Attorney Buron Fitts on a stretcher after being shot in the elbow by a mystery assailant. A reward was immediately offered for the identity of the would-be assassin.
Date:: [circa March 10, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: District Attorney Buron Fitts, Sheriff Biscailuz, Chief of Police James E. Davis, Deputy City Attorney Newton Kendall, Fitt’s chief deputy William E. Simpson and Attorney General U.S. Webb at a two-hour conference about gambling control at the Attorney General's office in the State Building
Date:: April 16, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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