Names: Ledbetter, Miles, 1893-1972 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Dual Killing Quiz Grows," Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb 1936: 9.
Date:: February 23, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to the article, "NEW DRAMA IN SLAYING: Victim's Father Faces Suspect: Parent of Mrs. Holmes Cites Suspicion and Gets Reply From Son-in-Law," Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan 1935: 3.
Date:: [January 21, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 25-year-old Swiss chauffeur Gottfried "Fred" Stettler is being held in suspicion of the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Carl and Dorothea Barbour. Stettler was charged with two counts of murder, two counts of burglary, and one count of arson. The victims were found partially cremated in bed with their skulls smashed.
Date:: February 21, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to "Suit Leads to Stabbing: City Prosecuter Aide Wounded," Los Angeles Times, 09 Jul 1935: A1.
Date:: July 8, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: John Frank Reavis, 26-year-old trombone player and candy salesman, in the court anteroom awaiting the jury’s decision to indict him in the murder of 17-year-old B-girl Alice “Jerry” Burns. Case investigating officers Det. Lt. Miles Ledbetter and Det. Lt. Lloyd Hurst are in the background. Reavis was indicted and after trial received a second-degree sentence of five years to life in San Quentin. His eye and left hand are bandaged as the result of a fight he had prior to his arrest
Date:: February 28, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Detective Lieutenant D. R. Patton, murder suspect John C. Hawkins, and Detective Lieutenant Miles Ledbetter, look at documents.
Date:: [October 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: 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.
Date:: January 21, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: In their pursuit of Mrs. Celia L. Holme's murderer, Detectives Miles Ledbetter and Joe Filkas question Ernest LaValle, the winter sports coach at USC and a friend of Mrs. Holmes. From left to right, Ernest LaValle, Joe Filkas, and Miles Ledbetter.
Date:: [circa January 29, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Detective Lieutenant Miles Ledbetter and Ray Pinker search under sofa cushions for evidence relating to the murder of Celia Holmes. Mrs. Holmes was found shot and bruised in a Mulholland Way ravine.
Date:: January 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: John Edward Healey (John E. Healey) is not in this negative. He appears with Ledbetter and Wallis in negative 7527.
Date:: [circa April 16, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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