Subject: Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Fire, 1933 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Frank Shearer, pointing to map, and Mabel V. Socha, seated nearby, both at right of large hanging map of Griffith Park, with five men seated and standing, possibly including Coroner Frank Nance or Coroner Ira Nance with back to camera, with table with books and papers in foreground and windows in background
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Possibly connected to Los Angeles Times article, October 12, 1933, Incendiary Sign in Blaze Cited, Park Fire Tragedy Inquest Witnesses Tell Story, Mysterious Stranger Seen Fleeing From Scene, Inquiry May Be Drawn Out Over Several Days. … testimony brought a barrage of questions from Deputy City Attorney Sisk, seated next to Mrs. Mabel Socha, president of the Park Commission … Conducting a general examination of the witnesses were Chief Deputy District Attorney Stewart …
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Possibly connected to Los Angeles Times article, October 12, 1933, Incendiary Sign in Blaze Cited, Park Fire Tragedy Inquest Witnesses Tell Story, Mysterious Stranger Seen Fleeing From Scene, Inquiry May Be Drawn Out Over Several Days. … The two witnesses were Frank Shearer, superintendent of the city park department, and F.W. Roewekamp, park landscape engineer, who both testified that they were but a few hundred yards distant when the blaze started …
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to the article “Inquest in Fire to Open Today, More Than Fifty Subpoenaed About Park Tragedy, Work Will Be Resumed by 6000 Welfare Men, Council and Supervisors Act on Liability Issue,” Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 1933. The article states: Trial Ordered for Man Facing Park Arson Charge. Accused of “starting his own fire” in Griffith Park on the 3rd inst. when he found out he was too late to assist in putting out the conflagration which took more than a score of lives, Robert D. Barr, unemployed film studio technician, yesterday was held for trial … defended by Attorneys Lawrence Cobb and Marcus Muskat. …
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A similar photograph appears with the article “Arsonist Suspect Testifies.” Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 1934. Caption reads: Called to trial on a charge of starting fire in Griffith Park on the night after the holocaust which cost twenty-nine lives, Robert Barr, film technician, yesterday testified in Superior Judge Burnell’s court that he “did not remember anything about it.” Evidence introduced by defense attorneys tended to show Barr’s “little fire” was quickly extinguished and did not endanger public property. Barr said he heard of the Griffith Park fire over the radio and went to see it, but his memory of the visit was hazy prior to his arrest. Arresting officers testified Barr was intoxicated. Mary Lantz, left, is shown here telling Barr she is ready to testify in his defense if needed.
Date:: February 14, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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