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Description:: A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, August 17, 1933, Principal Figures at Inquiry on Penthouse Tragedy. … Mrs. Zelda Smith, who testified as to what she saw and heard on night of slaying. …
Date:: August 16, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Woman in light dress and hat, seated at witness stand, with woman in sleeveless dress, facing away from camera, possibly clerk or jury member, seated near lamp in foreground
Date:: [between 1925-1939?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Witness Mrs. Adelaide Merritt enters the murder trial for Dr. George K. Dazey who was accused of murdering his wife. Mrs. Dazey was found dead as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning and her death was originally ruled a suicide. However, Dr. Dazey was later indicted by a county grand jury for the murder of his wife. Dr. Dazey was eventually acquitted of the charge of slaying his wife.
Date:: February 14, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Witness Mrs. Adelaide Merritt enters the murder trial for Dr. George K. Dazey who was accused of murdering his wife. Mrs. Dazey was found dead as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning and her death was originally ruled a suicide. However, Dr. Dazey was later indicted by a county grand jury for the murder of his wife. Dr. Dazey was eventually acquitted of the charge of slaying his wife.
Date:: February 14, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Witness Dora Van Horn waits to provide testimony during the murder trial for Dr. George K. Dazey who was accused of murdering his wife. Mrs. Dazey was found dead as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning and her death was originally ruled a suicide. However, Dr. Dazey was later indicted by a county grand jury for the murder of his wife. Dr. Dazey was eventually acquitted of the charge of slaying his wife.
Date:: February 14, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mrs. Winifred Westover Hart, former silent film actress and ex-wife of cowboy actor William S. Hart, using a magazine to hide her face from photographers during the George K. Dazey murder trial. Hart testifed that she had heard screams coming from the Dazey residence on the night George Dazey allegedly murdered his wife, Doris. Hart also said that she had received threats over the telephone after she began telling people about the screams.
Date:: February 9, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Chief Deputy District Attorney William Simpson indicates a point on a map at Albert Dyer's murder trial. Dyer lured three Inglewood girls to the hills, where he strangled them to death with his hands as well as rope. From left to right in the back is District Attorney William Simpson, Chief Investigator Eugene Williams, Public Defender William Neeley, Albert Dyer, and Public Defender Ellery Cuff.
Date:: [circa August 10, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: William J. Cook (left), friend and campaign worker for William G. Bonelli, lobbyist Edward Levine (center), and unknown (last name O'Brien?) at the liquor license bribe trial. Cook and Levine are both accused of involvement in a liquor license bribe scandal in which they allegedly conspired with at least five others to extort money from liquor retailers under threat of causing them to lose their liquor license
Date:: between October 24, 1939 and May 29, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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