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

Description:: Left to right: Detective Lieutenant R.S. Hamilton, Adolfo Campos, Det. Lt. E.J. Henry, and Det. Lt. E.C. Biffle, with a suitcase full of smuggled marijuana. Campos is the suspected smuggler.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Ray Splivalo and Harriet Jordon sit with Rheba Crawford during the preliminary trial for her criminal libel case. Crawford accused Dan McNally, editor, and Jonathan Perkins, writer of criminal libel. Crawford was known as the "Angel of Broadway" due to her Salvation Army work in New York City. She was an associate of Aimee Semple McPherson and served as the director of the State Department of Social Welfare.
Date:: September 06, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Jack "Diamondfield" Davis, a Nevada prospector who stuck it rich after being pardoned for an Idaho murder in 1902. When he was working for a cattle company, Diamondfield was accused of the murder of two sheepherders. He was sentenced to hang, but his execution date was postponed and then changed to life inprisonment after two other men confessed to the crime. Diamondfield was pardoned by Idaho Governor Frank W. Hunt in December of 1902.
Date:: [1930s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Frank E. Walker, father of murder victim Frances Walker, sits in a crowded room. Her murder was connected to an affair with former deputy Sheriff Archie Carter.
Date:: [circa August 1, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The jury for the murder case against Busby Berkeley convenes to debate the issues. Berkeley was purportedly at fault for a three-car-collision that resulted in two deaths, possibly because of alcohol he had imbibed at a cocktail party beforehand. To the far right is J.H. Silverstone, presumably the jury foreman.
Date:: [circa December 11, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Nola Hahn pictured during the grand jury trial on gambling operations in Los Angeles County. Hahn was summoned as a witness due to his role as the operator of Club Continental.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Detective Lieutenant Joseph Filkas appears at a press conference involving the murder of Mrs. Celia L. Holmes. He is probably announcing his discovery of new evidence which was a small white button found near the murder scene.
Date:: [circa January 29, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Detective Lieutenant Leroy E. Sanderson reenacts a crime with a gun tagged as evidence.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom. James had lost his pregnant wife Mary Emma James after she drowned in their fish pool. A jury was unable to discern whether her drowning was accidental or intentional.
Date:: [circa August 16, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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