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Description:: This photograph appears with the article, "Former Ring Idol Enacts Death Scene on Witness Stand: DEFENSE CLOSES AS KID REVEALS FAMILY TAINT Ex-Pugilist Enacts His Version of Mrs. Mors's Death Before Jury; Arguments on Monday," Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 1924: A1
Date:: [December 19, 1924]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Watson, George R., 1892-1977
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: On February 7, 1936, District Attorney Buron Fitts was acquitted of perjury regarding a 1931 testimony over the sale of a Claremont orange grove. Mrs. Berthall Gregory, Fitts’ sister, sold the grove to Lucien C. Wheeler. Fitts reportedly falsified the amount of money he received through the sale. The perjury trial lasted three weeks.
Date:: February 7, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A similar court scene appears in a photo spread titled, "Woman Captures Burglar Suspect at Point of Revolver," Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 1924: 8
Date:: [circa December 1924]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: The camera peers through an open door and into the courtroom during Aimee Semple McPherson's preliminary hearing. Spectators sit in a row against a window-lined wall. At right, another photographer looks to camera while standing beside his camera.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Reported in “Postoffice section of new Federal Building to be opened January 23,” Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 1939: 20.
Date:: January 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: At center, A. B. Murchison sits on the witness stand during the preliminary trial regarding Aimee Semple McPherson's disappearance. He sits facing towards the right and looks at a map unfolded in front of him. Two lawyers stand to the left of the witness box. Behind and to the right of Murchison, Judge Blake sits up at the bench and looks down towards the witness. In the foreground at right, a few lawyers sit at the counsel's table.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Buron Fitts Trial Opens on Charge of Perjury," Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan 1936: 2.
Date:: January 15, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Joe Crider, Jr. was the president of the Los Angeles Bar Association. The Bar Association requested that Justice Gavin W. Craig resign from his position after found guilty of obstructing justice.
Date:: May 25, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Kendall and Garland sit and stare intently forward. Spike O'Donnell stands close to Buron Fitts and holds his hat and jacket in his arms.
Date:: [April 18, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A different photo of Martin "Moe" Snyder and Jerry Geisler taken on the same occasion appears with the article "Snyder Tells Version of Shooting," Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec 1938: 6.
Date:: December 15, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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