Detectives Miles Ledbetter and Thad Brown question Edward E. Holmes over the unexpected murder of his wife Mrs. Celia L. Holmes. From left to right, Miles Ledbetter, Edward E. Holmes, and Thad Brown.
Attempted murder suspect Lorraine Hewitt sits between detectives Aldo Corsini and Thad Brown. Hewitt had shot her boyfriend Joseph Walsh at a dinner party in front of numerous witnesses. Walsh refused to name her as the shooter, and was charged with perjury.
Detectives Joseph Walsh (left) and Aldo Corsini (right) visit Joseph E. Walsh (center), who had been shot twice by his girlfriend Lorraine Hewitt at a dinner party. Walsh refused to identify Hewitt as the shooter and was charged with perjury, while Hewitt was convicted of attempted murder.
Photographed left to right are Eugene Biscailuz (Los Angeles County Sheriff), Police Captain Thad Brown, Los Angeles District Attorney Fred N. Howser, and Carl Moritz.
Otis Bias and Wendell Kelly, arrested for the murder of Robert F. Rinker, are seated at a desk on either side of Captain Ralph N. Davis, as Lieutenant Detectives look on, left to right: Joe Daniels, Joe Filkas, Thad Brown and E. G. Brown.
Different photographs taken on the same occasion appear with the article, “Fake Bomb Sent to M’Adoo Causes Downtown Furor,” Los Angeles Times, 25 Jul 1934: 1.
Samuel Whittaker is being investigated on suspicion of murdering his wife, Ethel E. Whittaker, paying transient James Fagan Culver to shoot her at the hotel the Whittakers were staying at during a fake hold-up.
Photograph of Detective Lieutenants Thad Brown and George Hill looking out of a window and down a light well at the Rosslyn Hotel annex. Another man (L) reaches a leg out of a facing window, reenacting the actions of Fred La Mar, who fell while executing a similar move.