Andrew Schwarzmann (or Andrew Schwarzman) sits in a three piece suit, photographed from the waist up. Behind him are bars against a solid structure, no openings.
Betty Carroll seated in a chair with her legs crossed. One hand is in her lap and the other is near her shoulder. Betty was She was Harry Thomas' partner, who was a criminal that was shot to death by police in 1927. Photo appears with the article, "Six Accused in Green Murder: "Mile Away" Thomas Named in One of Complaints Police Seek Others Also as Result of Killing Possible Blood Stains Found on Rifle Analyzed," Los Angeles Times, 06 Feb. 1927: 5.
Betty Carroll seated in a wooden chair, smiling at the camera. Betty was She was Harry Thomas' partner, who was a criminal that was shot to death by police in 1927. This photograph may be related to the article, "Mile Away" and Companion Held," Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 1927: A2.
Betty Carroll wearing a fur coat looking down and holding a handkerchief to her nose. She was Harry Thomas' partner, who was a criminal that was shot to death by police in 1927. Photo appears with the article, "Girl Reveals Thomas Plan: "Mile-Away" on Liquor Hunt at Time of Death Dispels Rumors Hijacker "Framed" by Police Three Other Men Hunted as Gangster's Partners," Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 1927: A2.
A crowd gathers around a chain letter racket shop. A city-wide police strike cracked down on the illegal shops, with officers joining the gambling undercover and then making arrests.
James Fagan Culver denies shooting 44-year-old Ethel E. Whittaker in an attempted hotel robbery. He was obtained by police in a building next door to Mr. and Mrs. Whittaker's hotel at 624 South Alvarado Street with three bullet wounds.
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.
Donna Emptage, who unwittingly rented the hideout of Leroy Anderson (alias Jack Williams), attempted kidnapper of millionaire San Marino banker Herbert D. Ivey. Emptage stands in a room with an iron-frame bed and other furnishings. This room was located in the rear of the storefront building previously rented by kidnapper Anderson.
George and Albert sit in two separate chairs, each of them handcuffed by one wrist to the arm of their respective chairs. A group of men stand behind them, their faces cut off by the top of the frame.
Jacob Berman (alias Jack Bennett) was charged with participation in a plot to bribe district attorney Asa Keyes to dismiss charges against himself and colleagues for his role in the over-issue of Julian Oil Corporation stock in 1927. He was also separately indicted in cases of embezzlement and forgery; the latter trial took place between 1928-1930. In those later trials, Berman testified for the State against Julian Petroleum.
Jacob Berman (left) is seated in a witness stand as he is questioned by district attorney Robert Stewart about documents that he holds in his hand. Jacob Berman (alias Jack Bennett) was charged with participation in a plot to bribe District-Attorney Asa Keyes to dismiss charges against himself and colleagues for his role in the over-issue of Julian Oil Corporation stock in 1927. He was also separately charged in cases of embezzlement and forgery; the latter trial took place between 1928-1930. In those later trials, Berman testified for the State against Julian Petroleum.
Jacob Berman (left) is seated in a witness stand as he is questioned by district attorney Robert Stewart about documents, small papers, that both are holding. Jacob Berman (alias Jack Bennett) was charged with participation ina plot to bribe District-Attorney Asa Keyes to dismiss charges against himself and colleagues for his role in the over-issue of Julian Oil Corporation stock in 1927. He was also separately charged in cases of embezzlement and forgery; the latter trial took place between 1928-1930. In those later trials, Berman testified for the State against Julian Petroleum.
Jacob Berman (alias Jack Bennett) was charged with participation in a plot to bribe district attorney Asa Keyes to dismiss charges against himself and colleagues for his role in the over-issue of Julian Oil Corporation stock in 1927. He was also separately indicted in cases of embezzlement and forgery; the latter trial took place between 1928-1930. In those later trials, Berman testified for the State against Julian Petroleum.
Photograph of James Fagan Culver, 23-year-old transient from Kentucky and suspect in the murder of Mrs. Ethel Whittaker. Mrs. Whittaker was shot in a Wilshire district hotel room in what police believed to be a fake hold-up scenario. Samuel T. Whittaker, husband of the murdered woman, was also held as a suspect.According to Culver, Samuel Whittaker cultivated a friendship with Culver and gave him money for food and shelter over several weeks' time. Then, Whittaker asked Culver to purchase a gun and gave him the money to do so. He was then instructed to go to a specific place at an appointed time and stage a robbery. According to Culver, when he entered the Whittaker's South Alvarado St. apartment, both Samuel and Ethel Whittaker were present. Culver claims to have shot his gun by accident only after being shot himself, presumably by Whittaker. Ethel Whittaker was shot four times, including once from the back. When police retrieved the gun used by Culver, only three chambers were empty.The jury eventually ruled that Whittaker had arranged the elaborate plot to kill his wife in order to collect the insurance on her life. Samuel Whittaker was convicted of the murder of his wife, as well as deadly assault on James Culver, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Whittaker died of a heart attack five days after arriving at the San Quentin penitentiary.Culver himself pled guilty to second-degree murder for his part in the plot against Ethel Whittaker, and received a sentence of five years to life imprisonment.
Photograph of the jury in Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts' 1936 perjury trial. Pictured are Mrs. Camilla Markey of Altadena, Miss Lottie B. Connelly of Los Angeles, Mrs Harriet Bliss of Santa Monica, Mr. Stanfel S. Forbes Sr. of Los Angeles, Mrs. Josephine Fox of Los Angeles, Mrs. Louise J. Boaz of Los Angeles, Mr. William Douglas of Los Angeles, Mr. Allen A. Bunnell of Pasadena, Mrs. Stella L. Duryea of Los Angeles, Mrs. Louise S. Harwood of Altadena, and Mrs. Edith Isakson of Los Angeles.
Photograph of the jury in Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts' 1936 perjury trial. Pictured are Mrs. Camilla Markey of Altadena, Miss Lottie B. Connelly of Los Angeles, Mrs Harriet Bliss of Santa Monica, Mr. Stanfel S. Forbes Sr. of Los Angeles, Mrs. Josephine Fox of Los Angeles, Mrs. Louise J. Boaz of Los Angeles, Mr. William Douglas of Los Angelse, Mr. Allen A. Bunnell of Pasadena, Mrs. Stella L. Duryea of Los Angeles, Mrs. Louise S. Harwood of Altadena, and Mrs. Edith Isakson of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts and Special Prosecutor Clyde Shoemaker, pictured at Fitts' perjury trial, circa January 1936. Dist. Atty Fitts was charged with perjuring himself during testimony to a 1931 grand jury, in regards to real estate transactions carried out by his family. His sister and secretary, Mrs. Berthal Gregory, was also a defendant in this case.
Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts, second from right, sits with his defense lawyer Jerry Geisler, second from left, along with his chief deputy Robert P. Stewart, far left, and deputy District Attorney, William Simpson.
Los Angeles police detective Charles Reimer fills out paperwork while sitting at a desk. Charles Reimer filed a charge against individuals for the fraudulent kidnapping case of Aimee Semple McPherson. Photograph appears with the article "Manufacturing of False Evidence Ascribed to Defendants in State's Formal Accusations: FELONIOUS PLOT CHARGED TO SEVEN IN COMPLAINT Lengthy Document Reviews Entire McPherson 'Kidnaping' History as Pointing to Conspiracy," Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 1926: 3.
Mexican cowboy Francisco Perez testifies on behalf of evangelist Aimee McPherson in her trial on charges that she conspired with her mother to defeat justice. The case focused on charges the popular minister faked her own kidnapping.
Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Seek Clew In Girl Branding; Police Hunt Hooded Pair of Mutilators; Fiery Cross Burned Into Flesh of Arm; K.K.K. Warnings Followed by Attack." 29 Jan., 1926: A10.
Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Seek Clew In Girl Branding; Police Hunt Hooded Pair of Mutilators; Fiery Cross Burned Into Flesh of Arm; K.K.K. Warnings Followed by Attack." 29 Jan., 1926: pg. A10.
Women close to Los Angelse District Attorney Buron Fitts, at his trial for perjury. From left to right are his wife, Mrs. Buron (Marion) Fitts, wife of Dept. Dist. Atty. Mrs. Eugene (Winifred) Blalock, and mother of Buron Fitts, Mrs. Ardell Fitts.
Mrs. Hazel Belford Glab appears in court to give testimony in her defense on March 16, 1936. Glab was accused of the 1928 murder of her husband, pharmacist John I. Glab. Mrs. Glab had been only recently convicted of forging the will of her late fiancee, wealthy manufacturer Albert Cheney, who died in Las Vegas before the two could be wed. John I. Glab was shot in the home he and Hazel Glab shared, on the evening of June 18, 1928. Mrs. Glab contested that her husband had been shot by her former lover, policeman W. R. McIntyre, and that she had been home listening to the radio with her niece the eve of the murder and had not heard the shot. Glab had been married to the pharmacist for only 16 months.Hazel Glab was convicted of second-degree murder on March 21, 1936.
Mrs. Hazel Belford Glab appears in court to give testimony in her defense on March 16, 1936. Glab was accused of the 1928 murder of her husband, pharmacist John I. Glab. Mrs. Glab had been only recently convicted of forging the will of her late fiancee, wealthy manufacturer Albert Cheney, who died in Las Vegas before the two could be wed. John I. Glab was shot in the home he and Hazel Glab shared, on the evening of June 18, 1928. Mrs. Glab contested that her husband had been shot by her former lover, policeman W. R. McIntyre, and that she had been home listening to the radio with her niece the eve of the murder and had not heard the shot. Glab had been married to the pharmacist for only 16 months.Hazel Glab was convicted of second-degree murder on March 21, 1936.
Mrs. Hazel Belford Glab appears in court to give testimony in her defense on March 16, 1936. Glab was accused of the 1928 murder of her husband, pharmacist John I. Glab. Mrs. Glab had been only recently convicted of forging the will of her late fiancee, wealthy manufacturer Albert Cheney, who died in Las Vegas before the two could be wed. John I. Glab was shot in the home he and Hazel Glab shared, on the evening of June 18, 1928. Mrs. Glab contested that her husband had been shot by her former lover, policeman W. R. McIntyre, and that she had been home listening to the radio with her niece the eve of the murder and had not heard the shot. Glab had been married to the pharmacist for only 16 months.Hazel Glab was convicted of second-degree murder on March 21, 1936.
Glab was accused of the 1928 murder of her husband, pharmacist John I. Glab. Mrs. Glab had been only recently convicted of forging the will of her late fiancee, wealthy manufacturer Albert Cheney, who died in Las Vegas before the two could be wed. John I. Glab was shot in the home he and Hazel Glab shared, on the evening of June 18, 1928. Mrs. Glab contested that her husband had been shot by her former lover, policeman W. R. McIntyre, and that she had been home listening to the radio with her niece the eve of the murder and had not heard the shot. Glab had been married to the pharmacist for only 16 months. Hazel Glab was convicted of second-degree murder on March 21, 1936.
Charles C. Clark has worked with the police department for over ten years, but is now being considered as a collaborate in a string of robberies and burglaries that he and partner Ralph Savage allegedly served as lookouts for.
Related to the article, "Seek Clew In Girl Branding; Police Hunt Hooded Pair of Mutilators; Fiery Cross Burned Into Flesh of Arm; K.K.K. Warnings Followed by Attack," Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 1926: A10.
Radio evangelist Reverend Ethel Duncan was arrested on federal charges of income tax evasion, which was filed against she and ex-husband Lloyd M. Prewitt for failing to file a return on their 1931 gross income of $86, 000.
Related to "Party Ends in Slaying," Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep 1935: A2; ""Liquor Rows Exact Toll," Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep 1935: A3; and "Fatal Stabbing Suspect Wins Release Order," Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep 1935: A3.
Seema Matlin is posing next to a window with wired glass. She is wearing a checked dress with a belt and a cardigan. Her right arm is raised and her hand grasps a window bar. Her left arm is bent and her hand rests on her waist. She is smiling at the camera.