Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives / Names: Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973 / Subject: Crime and Lawyers--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: District attorney Buron Fitts and his sister Mrs. Berthal Gregory appear with their attorneys Joseph Scott and Jerry Giesler to contend the charges of perjury brought against them by the grand jury. From left to right, standing, Buron Fitts, Joseph Scott, Mrs. Berthal Gregory, and Jerry Giesler.
Date:: [circa November 2, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: 21-year-old Louis Rude Payne (right) with District Attorney Buron Fitts at an inquest about Payne's confessed murder of his mother and younger brother with an ax.
Date:: June 6, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: 21-year-old Louis Rude Payne (right) with District Attorney Buron Fitts at an inquest about Payne's confessed murder of his mother and younger brother with an ax.
Date:: June 6, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A photograph of Chief of Beverly Hills Police Charles C. Blair, District Attorney Buron Fitts, and lawyer Ernest E. Noon. The three men were involved in the search for kidnapping victim William F. Gettle and the prosecution of the kidnappers after Gettle's safe recovery.Charles C. Blair was the first Chief of Police of Beverly Hills, serving from 1927-1942. Ernest E. Noon was the attorney of the Gettle family. He was intimitely involved with the attempts to recover William F. Gettle, directing via the Los Angeles Times that the kidnappers send any ransom requests to him, as Mrs. Fleeta Gettle was ill with nervous prostration after the kidnapping of her husband and under medical supervision.Buron Fitts was the district attorney of Los Angeles from 1928-1940. Fitts was in charge of co-ordinating the police agencies in their search for Gettle and his kidnappers.
Date:: [circa May, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: 21-year-old Louis Rude Payne (right) with District Attorney Buron Fitts at an inquest about Payne's confessed murder of his mother and younger brother with an ax.
Date:: June 6, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: 21-year-old Louis Rude Payne (right) with District Attorney Buron Fitts at an inquest about Payne's confessed murder of his mother and younger brother with an ax.
Date:: June 6, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: 21-year-old Louis Rude Payne (right) with District Attorney Buron Fitts at an inquest about Payne's confessed murder of his mother and younger brother with an ax.
Date:: June 6, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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