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Description:: The newspaper article that this photograph is associated with contains a photograph that is very similar, but is slightly different from this photograph. The caption for the photograph published in the newspaper states, “In a tense moment in a courtroom murder drama, Archie Carter, right, and Attorney Stanley Visel demonstrate from the witness stand how Carter attempted to wrest the gun from the hand of his wife, Gladys, on trial for murder".
Date:: June 10, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Howard L. Barlow sits in the witness stand during the trial of Leo Patrick Kelley, charged for the murder of Myrtle Mellus. He holds a piece of folded paper and a pencil in his hands, going over the findings of Kelley's fingerprints that were on the whiskey bottle, which is placed on the ledge in front of him. Reported in "Police Say Fingerprints Prove Kelly Slayer: Los Angeles Detectives Believe They Have Clinched Killing Of Mrs. Mellus," The Sun, 10 Aug. 1928: 10.
Date:: August 9, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mildred Kalen seat4d in a chair after being cleared of perjury charges.
Date:: September 19, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The picture taken from what appears to be the jury box shows Kelly sitting with crossed legs in the witness stand, looking towards the ceiling. The court stenographer is also in the frame, his face slightly blurred from being caught in motion.
Date:: May 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Attorney James Costello and an unidentified witness hold a piece of fabric, probably evidence, while the witness is providing testimony. Arthur M. Maas and J. M. Roberts were among the witnesses questioned. Leo Patrick Kelly was tried for the murder of Myrtle Mellus.
Date:: August 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Unidentified man on the witness stand during the trial of Leo Patrick Kelly, charged for the murder of Myrtle Mellus.
Date:: August 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Possibly related to the article, "WITNESS SAYS HE SAW M'PHERSON KIDNAPING: Corroborative Story Related After Evangelist Undergoes Severe Grilling Before Grand Jury," Los Angeles Times, 09 Jul. 1926: 1
Date:: [circa July 8, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Henrietta McDonald, governess to 5-year old Dolores and 3-year old John Jr., giving corroborating testimony in Dolores Costello's divorce suit against John Barrymore.
Date:: October 8, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Ida Mae Rhoades, accused of the shooting murder of Dr. George G. Hunter, in a courtroom seated between Luke J. McNamee (L) and her lawyer W. I. Gilbert. Rhoades was acquitted on the grounds of insanity and confined to a mental institution.
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Similar photograph appears with the article, "Jury Indicts Street Aide," Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov 1934: A1.
Date:: November 27, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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