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Description:: Aimee Semple McPherson was an evangelist with the Angelus Temple. In 1926 she disappeared and was allegedly kidnapped; however upon her return, she was charged, along with her mother, Mildred Kennedy, with conspiracy, perjury and obstruction of justice.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: A similar photograph is titled, "Panorama of Opposing Forces in Battle Over Angelus Temple Leader," Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 1926: A11
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Five men seated in front of the judge's bench and another man farther behind. Court appears to not be in session at the moment.
Date:: December 8, 1921
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Los Angeles judge Carlos Hardy and two others in courtroom holding umbrellas over their heads.
Date:: [circa 1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Murder suspect Gladys Carter staring intently, with her attorney Ed Haumsech by her side. Both are seated at a table, with documents in front of Haumsech. In the background are spectators in the courtroom gallery. Carter was charged with fatally shooting her houseguest of two years, Frances Walker. She suspected Walker of having a romantic relationship with her husband, Deputy Sheriff Archie Carter.
Date:: [June, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Name misspelled on negative sleeve and negative. Walter Connelly is Walter Connolly, a character actor.
Date:: July 9, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Charles Lynch was a sculptor who was accused of assault with a deadly weapon when he allegedly used his sculptor's knife to stab Al Spencer.
Date:: [circa July 22, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: At left, attorney Forrest Murray stands beside the witness box during the kidnapping case of Aimee Semple McPherson. He stands facing slightly right and holds up the dress worn by McPherson when found in the desert. To the right of him, Alonzo B. Murchison, a native of Douglas, Arizona, sits on the witness stand.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Attorney Robert H. Davis sits on the left side of the table, leaning forward, arms resting on the table in front of him, hands clasped together. He is looking away from the camera. Kenneth Touschner, who accidentally shot his friend Cleo L. Haskins, Jr., sits on the right, resting his chin in his hands, elbows on the table. His eyes are downcast.
Date:: [between December 14-18, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Lorraine Wiseman is cross-examined in the case of the McPherson kidnapping.
Date:: October 15, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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