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Description:: (Left to right) Coroner Frank Nance, Chemist Miles Drake, and Det. Lt. Aldo Corsini examining something in a bottle in what appears to be a chemistry lab. Presumably, the three men are all investigating a crime. Corsini was a homicide detective, so it is probably a murder investigation, but the details are unknown.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Photograph corresponds to article, "Japanese Married Woman and Lover Confess Murder and Burial of Child," Los Angeles Times, 8 Jun. 1932: A2.
Date:: June 7, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Chinese civic leaders Peter Soohoo and Dr. S.J. Lin reassure Captain of Detectives Bert Wallis and Chief Joseph Taylor that gang warfare in the Chinese Los Angeles community will not escalate, despite recent skirmishes.
Date:: March 6, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Chinese civic leaders Peter Soohoo and Dr. S.J. Lin reassure Captain of Detectives Bert Wallis that gang warfare will not escalate in the Los Angeles Chinese community. From left to right, Dr. Lin, Bert Wallis, and Peter Soohoo.
Date:: March 6, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Photograph of Charles Griffen looking through drawers filled with cards for an investigation. The cards are indexed with the names of those who placed telegraphic bets on races. Griffen is standing in the photograph and wears a suit and tie. The open drawers sit on a desk, and in the background there is a closed door.
Date:: March 29, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph may be associated with the article, “Suspects Parade Flood-lighted Stage Before Audience of Victims: Drama Played in Raw at Show-up on Crimes,” Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 1935: A2.
Date:: September 26, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Detective Cato and Detective Barr of the LAPD questioning William Everett Hawkins, the suspect of a blackmail case in which he a chauffeur accused of extorting his employer R. W. Pridham.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Bert Wallis, head of LAPD Homicide Squad, fills out paperwork with John Binan. John Binan was the manager of the Virginia Ballroom and the body of Louise Appier was found slain in his apartment. After questioning, John Binan was later released.
Date:: March 20, 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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