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Description:: Deputy Sheriff Carmack and Larry Morrell dig up human skeleton from East Los Angeles backyard. The skeleton was found by a 10-year-old boy and they were believed to have belonged to 50 or 60 year old man.
Date:: February 12, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Los Angeles District Attorney's investigator, Lloyd Yarrow, testifies in the bribery trial of George K. Thornton. Thornton, a California Board of Equalization officer, was charged with accepting money from Santa Barbara cafe owner Agnes O'Brien, for reinstatement of her liquor license.
Date:: July 30, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Los Angeles District Attorney's investigator, Lloyd Yarrow, testifies in the bribery trial of George K. Thornton. Thornton, a California Board of Equalization officer, was charged with accepting money from Santa Barbara cafe owner Agnes O'Brien, for reinstatement of her liquor license.
Date:: July 30, 1937
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:: The camera looks through the open rear passenger door of an automobile and towards investigator Ted Allen. At left, Ted Allen sits inside the car, facing right. He bends forward as he lifts the floorboard off a secret compartment tucked behind the front passenger seat. The front passenger door remains closed at right. A couple of other men stand on the far side of the car in the background.
Date:: December 13, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A photograph of the same event appears with the title, “Sucker List Files Seized,” Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 1936: 3
Date:: March 28, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: In 1935, William Hardy confessed to the beating of his half-sister Helen Katherine Williams with a hammer.
Date:: February 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Louise Peete was convicted on Feb. 5, 1921 of first-degree murder in the death of Jacob Denton. She served 18 years in San Quentin before being released. In 1945 she was convicted of a second murder, this time of Margaret Logan, a wealthy woman who had supported Peete while she was in prison. For the second murder she was given the death penalty, and in 1947 became the second woman to be executed in California.
Date:: [January 1921-February 1921]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Detective Lieutenant Ray Giese (left) appears to be questioning William Burns in front of a desk. They are both seated. A wire in-basket sits on the desk. Giese wears a straw hat and striped tie with a tie clip and his suit jacket is unbuttoned. He holds a small notebook in his lap with both hands. Burns wears a button down shirt with his shirt sleeves rolled up and his top button undone. They are turned in their chairs, facing each other.
Date:: July 26, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photograph depicts murder victim Rose Marie Happel (also referred to as Rosabella in the Los Angeles Times). She was murdered by her husband John H. Happel.
Date:: December 5, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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