District Attorney Buron Fitts, Sheriff Biscailuz, Chief of Police James E. Davis, Deputy City Attorney Newton Kendall, Fitt’s chief deputy William E. Simpson and Attorney General U.S. Webb at a two-hour conference about gambling control at the Attorney General's office in the State Building
21-year-old Louis Rude Payne (right) with District Attorney Buron Fitts at an inquest about Payne's confessed murder of his mother and younger brother with an ax.
21-year-old Louis Rude Payne (right) with District Attorney Buron Fitts at an inquest about Payne's confessed murder of his mother and younger brother with an ax.
21-year-old Louis Rude Payne (right) with District Attorney Buron Fitts at an inquest about Payne's confessed murder of his mother and younger brother with an ax.
District Attorney Buron Fitts in the hospital being attended to by a nurse after being shot in the elbow by a mystery assailant. A reward was immediately offered for the identity of the would-be assassin.
District Attorney Buron Fitts (standing) announces a new "gang squad" created to drive out Los Angeles gangsters and racketeers. The squad consists of six men, including leader John Klein (seated), formerly assigned to special duty with the grand jury. The group is also working with two police officers, one from Chicago and the other from New York, who will help to identify gangsters who have moved in from the east