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A. J. Fitzgerald, investigator, searching the room of William F. McKee who committed suicide, 1935

Description:
Photograph of investigator A. J. Fitzgerald, wearing a tweed jacket, tie, and straw boater hat, reading from papers in a drawer. He stands in the room of Ex-banker, William L. McKee. At left, an open suitcase lays atop a metal frame bed with casters. Below the window, a small table topped with coffee and "Cocomalt" cans and newspapers stacked below. Numerous neckties hang on a ring attached to a mirror at right. Also in view are a metal wash basin, near empty glass bottles, shoes and metal shoe stretchers.
Date:
August 23, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
A. J. Fitzgerald, investigator, searching the room of William F. McKee who committed suicide, 1935

Attorney Volney P. Mooney and Representative Charles Kramer investigating un-American activities, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Attorney Volney P. Mooney (left), the National Commander of the Disabled Veterans of America, and Representative Charles Kramer holding a document and looking at it. They are at an office desk covered with other documents, glasses, and a glasses case. This photograph was probably taken when Kramer, chairman of the subcommittee investigating un-American activities, held executive sessions to interrogate local Los Angeles groups including Nazis, Communists, and Fascists in Room 306 of the Federal Building on August 1, 1934. Mooney assisted him.
Date:
[August 1, 1934]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Attorney Volney P. Mooney and Representative Charles Kramer investigating un-American activities, Los Angeles, 1935

Captain Bert Massey, LAPD officer and Liquor Control Act administrator in Los Angeles County, in court, Los Angeles, 1935?

Description:
Captain Bert Massey, a Los Angeles Police Department officer who also served as administrator of the Liquor Control Act in Los Angeles County, seated at the head of a table in the center of the photo, with two women at each side of the table. Behind Massey is a man in a light-colored suit, seated in a chair. Behind a bench in the background are Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney H. Leslie Wildey on the left and a person whose head is obscured by Massey's. This photograph was possibly taken during a California State Senate committee's July 1935 investigation of favoritism that existed in the issuance of liquor licenses in Los Angeles County. Wildey was appointed to act as an observer during the hearings and report to the grand jury any information that indicated criminal activities.
Date:
[July, 1935?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Captain Bert Massey, LAPD officer and Liquor Control Act administrator in Los Angeles County, in court, Los Angeles, 1935?

Captain Walter E. Hegi of the Glendale Police Dept. and Paul A. Wright during an investigation of the double murder of Wright's wife and best friend, Los Angeles, November 1937

Description:
Captain Walter E. Hegi of the Glendale police dept. (left) with airline official Paul A. Wright early on in the investigation of the double murder of Wright's wife Evelyn and best friend, John Kimmel. A crime to which Wright had confessed. Wright testified that he shot his wife and best friend after finding them in an embrace. In the trial that followed, called the "White Flame" trial by the press, Wright eventually escaped the death pentalty and a prison sentence on an insanity plea, thanks to his lawyer Jerry Giesler
Date:
November 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Captain Walter E. Hegi of the Glendale Police Dept. and Paul A. Wright during an investigation of the double murder of Wright's wife and best friend, Los Angeles, November 1937

Captain Walter E. Hegi of the Glendale Police Dept. and Paul A. Wright leaving the office of coroner Frank Nance, Los Angeles, November 9, 1937

Description:
Captain Walter E. Hegi of the Glendale police dept. (left) and airline official Paul A. Wright leaving the office of Coroner Frank Nance. Nance was examining the bodies of Wright's wife Evelyn and best friend John Kimmel. Unfortunately he received the bodies after they had been embalmed. Mrs. Wright and Kimmel had been shot, and Mr. Wright had confessed to the crime, having caught his wife and best friend in an embrace. In the trial that followed, called the "White Flame" trial by the press, Wright eventually escaped the death pentalty and a prison sentence on an insanity plea, thanks to his lawyer Jerry Giesler
Date:
November 9, 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Captain Walter E. Hegi of the Glendale Police Dept. and Paul A. Wright leaving the office of coroner Frank Nance, Los Angeles, November 9, 1937

Charles Griffen combs through telegraphic bets for an investigation, Los Angeles, 1936

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
Charles Griffen combs through telegraphic bets for an investigation, Los Angeles, 1936

Charles Hardaker is questioned by an investigator after the arrest of his wife for the murder of their daughter, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:
Charles Hardaker is questioned by an unidentified investigator after the arrest of his wife for the murder of their daughter. Betty Hardaker was convicted of murdering her 5 year old daughter, Geraldine Hardaker, in a Montebello park washroom. The jury convicted her of committing the crime while of unsound mind.
Date:
February 24, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Charles Hardaker is questioned by an investigator after the arrest of his wife for the murder of their daughter, Los Angeles, 1940