Possibly connected with Los Angeles Times article, March 28, 1934, Lucas F. Smith Sentenced to Prison for Robbery of Estate and Attempted Murder, Lawyer Must Go to Prison, San Quentin Term Given, Two to Twenty Years Imposed, Attorney Had Pleaded Guilty of Attempting to Slay Prosecutor’s Aide, Money Taken From Property of Client and Auto Driven Over Cliff
This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, March 6, 1934, Pair Periled in Auto Plunge, Two Escape as Lawyer’s Auto Plunges Down Hill, Attorney, Facing Investigation on Estate Funds, and Fitts’s Aide in 250-Foot Descent. Facing investigation in connection with his handling of the estate of Mrs. Mary J. Chamberlain, Lucas F. Smith, an attorney, was reported by authorities yesterday afternoon to have been in a spectacular dash of his automobile, in which a District Attorney’s investigator, Duffey Seay, was also riding, through a heavy rail on Huntley Drive and a careening trip of some 250 feet down a precipitous hill leading to Second street. Neither of the two was injured to any extent and the car remained upright …
