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Order of the White Lion medal, an award for merit by Czechoslovakia for foreign citizens

Description:
The Order of the White Lion medal, an award for merit by Czechoslovakia for foreign citizens. This medal is the civil version, as noted by the two crossed palms above the badge, instead of two crossed swords, which would indicate military. This award was given to William May Garland in Los Angeles.
Date:
May 9, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Order of the White Lion medal, an award for merit by Czechoslovakia for foreign citizens

Jury members for the Hickman-Hunt murder trial, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:
Photograph of jurors from the Hickman-Hunt trial. William Edward Hickman, who was already sentenced to death for the kidnap and murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker, was tried jointly with Welby Hunt for the murder of C. Ivy Toms, a Rosehill pharmacist, on Christmas Eve of 1926. Hunt received a life sentence but was later paroled. Hickman also received a life sentence but was executed at San Quentin for the Parker murder, October 19, 1928.
Date:
1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Jury members for the Hickman-Hunt murder trial, Los Angeles, 1928

Donald Armstrong, Helen Werner, and Joseph Lewinson in court, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
The Italo Petroleum Corporation was originally charged with trying to defraud investors, saddle them with heavy losses over the failed purchase of another oil company. The fraud was allegedly conducted through letters mailed to the investors, hence the charge of mail fraud. Justice Gavin Craig, former political figure Helen Werner, and political lobbyist Joseph Weinblatt were all tried for attempting to bribe the U.S. Attorney General on behalf of the Italo Petroleum Corp.
Date:
February 27, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Donald Armstrong, Helen Werner, and Joseph Lewinson in court, Los Angeles, 1935

Mrs. Grace Du Bois, accused of the murder of her son, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Mrs. Grace W. Du Bois was jailed on suspicion of killing her 33-year-old son Dr. Charles N. Du Bois with a gunshot to the back of the head in the kitchen of his home. Mrs. Du Bois, who claims an intruder is responsible for the murder, was quoted with the confusing statement: "You say I might have done it. I don't believe I did, although I might have done it. I still think I am right in what I told you at first. I believe there was a young man there. Maybe there wasn't- but I believe there was."
Date:
December 25, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Mrs. Grace Du Bois, accused of the murder of her son, Los Angeles, 1935

Professional Boxer Jack Dempsey with family on vacation, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Boxer Jack Dempsey with wife Hannah Dempsey and daughter Joan Hannah while on a cross-country vacation with his mother. Jack Dempsey was an American professional boxer and a cultural icon of the 1920s. He held the World Heavyweight Championship from 1919 to 1926. He is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. His wife, popular as Hannah Williams, was a musical comedienne.
Date:
July 30, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Professional Boxer Jack Dempsey with family on vacation, Los Angeles, 1935

Police dusting for fingerprints in a Ford coup, possibly related to the Hickman kidnap and murder case, Los Angeles, 1927

Description:
William Edward Hickman, wanted for the kidnap and murder of Marion Parker, was captured in Echo, Oregon, after an eight-day manhunt. In his initial confession (given while in Oregon) he named an alleged accomplice who drove a Ford coup. That detail is noted in the article, "Detailed Confession Made by "The Fox": Amazing Account of Conversing With Detectives and Following Police Cars at Rendezvous After Kidnapping Given by Hickman," Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 1927: 1.
Date:
1927
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Police dusting for fingerprints in a Ford coup, possibly related to the Hickman kidnap and murder case, Los Angeles, 1927