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Description:: Veteran Deputy Sheriffs Angel A. Yorba and George Shehi retire and pose with Sheriff Eugene W. Biscailuz at their retirement ceremony. Left to right: Yorba, Biscailuz, Shehi.
Date:: December 12, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: After the murder and assault convictions of 17 Mexican American youths in the Sleepy Lagoon murder case, the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee advocated for the defendants until the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the convictions as a miscarriage of justice.
Date:: Oct 1944
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Defendants in the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial are reunited with family and friends in the Los Angeles Hall of Justice following their acquittal.
Date:: Oct 1944
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Family of murder victim Marilyn Bunker sit in court during the trial of the accused murderer Donald Rogers. Marilyn was shot by 17-year-old Donald Rogers, also known as Donald Fehrenschild, while she was playing on a hill with her little brother and other children. Rogers shot at the children from the upstairs window of his home. However, Rogers insisted that he was trying to shoot doves he had seen on the hillside.
Date:: February 15, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Lieutenant Colonel Norman Grimsditch enters courtroom to provide testimony during the murder trial for Dr. George K. Dazey who was accused of murdering his wife. Mrs. Dazey was found dead as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning and her death was originally ruled a suicide. However, Dr. Dazey was later indicted by a county grand jury for the murder of his wife. Dr. Dazey was eventually acquitted of the charge of slaying his wife.
Date:: February 14, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The theme of the 49th Tourament of Roses Parade in 1938 was "Playland Fantasies"
Date:: January 1, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Edward T. Bishop, Frank S. Hutton, and Joseph Crider, Jr. swear Goodwin S. Knight into office as judge of the Superior Court. Joseph Crider, Jr was the president of the Los Angeles Bar Association.
Date:: September 23, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Attorney Ross F. Wilkins apologizing to Deputy Sheriff J. A. Dixon for engaging him in a fist fight during a jury selection session for the William Bonelli liquor license bribe trial. The fight started when Dixon told Wilkins he could not ride down in the elevator with the newly selected jury. Wilkins resisted and started punching Dixon when Dixon went to physically remove Wilkins from the elevator. Wilkins, who was uninvolved with the trial, claimed that he resisted because Dixon was in plain clothes and he didn't realize that he was an officer. Wilkins and Dixon appeared friendly during the apology.
Date:: February 20, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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