Names: Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973 / Subject: Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: From left, district attorneys Buron Fitts and William Simpson, special prosecutor William J. Clark (standing) and district attorney Robert P. Stewart in a courtooom during the trial of former attorney Asa Keyes, charged with accepting a bribe from the Julian Petroleum Corporation. The courtroom appears to be relatively empty, with only five other people near the public gallery in the courtroom.
Date:: [1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: From left, district attorneys Buron Fitts and William Simpson, special prosecutor William J. Clark (standing) and district attorney Robert P. Stewart in a courtroom during the trial of former attorney Asa Keyes, charged with accepting a bribe from the Julian Petroleum Corporation. The courtroom appears to be relatively empty, with only five other people near the public gallery in the courtroom.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: From left to right, District Attorney Buron Fitts sits with his attorneys, Jerry Giesler, Joseph Scott, and Jack Gilchrist, during his perjury trial before the grand jury.
Date:: [circa November 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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:: District Attorney Buron Fitts stands next to his sister, Mrs. Berthal Gregory, both of which were facing an indictment for perjury by the county grand jury.
Date:: [circa November 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Fitts Trial in Perjury Case Opens," Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan 1936: 1.
Date:: January 21, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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

Description:: Buron Fitts, Los Angeles County District Attorney, seated at a table and holding a typescript, probably during the trial of Thomas Edward Dugger.
Date:: [between 1935-1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Buron Fitts, Los Angeles County District Attorney, seated at a table and holding a typescript, probably during the trial of Thomas Edward Dugger.
Date:: [between 1935-1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Buron Fitts and his legal team. From left to right: Fitts, William Simpson, Joe Scott, Jerry Giesler.
Date:: January 27, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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