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Description:: Myrtle Takaoka and her brother Hal Takaoka in court at a preliminary hearing involving the murder of their dancer sister, Midi Takaoka. Judge Irvin Taplin was presiding. The dancer's throat was cut by her jilted lover, waiter Raymond Johnson. Johnson later was sentenced to life in prison.
Date:: August 19, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Myrtle Takaoka and her brother Hal Takaoka in court at a preliminary hearing involving the murder of their dancer sister, Midi Takaoka. Judge Irvin Taplin was presiding. The dancer's throat was cut by her jilted lover, waiter Raymond Johnson. Johnson later was sentenced to life in prison.
Date:: August 19, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Hal Takaoka testifying on the witness stand about the murder of his sister, dancer Midi Takaoka. Judge Irvin Taplin was presiding. The dancer's throat was cut by her jilted lover, waiter Raymond Johnson. Johnson later was sentenced to life in prison.
Date:: August 19, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Unidentified hearing in courtroom. One man standing, possibly testifying as a witness. On the table are small model cars and a small figure of a man.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Chamber of Commerce ladies chastising Dick Russell for the speeding ticket he received from motorcycle officer Dick Barlow during a planned race between an automobile and a bus. The race was part of a "Don't be April fools, obey Traffic rules" campaign to prove that safe driving always prospers. Russell sped and disobeyed traffic laws in the automobile and almost beat safe driver Frank Lampley's bus full of Chamber of Commerce ladies, until the officer intervened.
Date:: April 1, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Suspects in the Inglewood Everett-Stephens murders (from left to right) John Dobson, Ed Cassidy, Leo Collins, and Ed King standing against a wall. Albert Dyer, a crossing guard, later confessed to the crime.
Date:: [circa July 3, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Police officer stands with R.F. McGarry, member of the Black Legion secret society. Black Legion was an organization that had ties to the Ku Klux Klan and operated mainly in Detroit, Michigan in the 1930s. The organization targeted African-Americans and slayed Silas Coleman on May 25, 1935.
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Betty Flay Hardaker takes an oath while on trial for murder. Mrs. Hardaker was convicted of murdering her 5 year old daugher, Geraldine Hardaker, in a Montebello park washroom. The jury convicted her of committing the crime while of unsound mind.
Date:: February 23, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Actor Ben Lyon with his wife, actress Bebe Daniels, during a trial for 36-year-old war veteran Albert F. Holland. Holland's sanity was questioned after he wrote more than 150 love letters to Daniels and claimed to have married her in Mexico. During the case, Holland ran most of his own defense, including a lengthy cross-examination of Lyon. The jury ultimately found Holland to be insane and committed him to the state hospital.
Date:: January 4, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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