Subject: Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Ray Splivalo and Harriet Jordon sit with Rheba Crawford during the preliminary trial for her criminal libel case. Crawford accused Dan McNally, editor, and Jonathan Perkins, writer of criminal libel. Crawford was known as the "Angel of Broadway" due to her Salvation Army work in New York City. She was an associate of Aimee Semple McPherson and served as the director of the State Department of Social Welfare.
Date:: September 06, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Glenn Randall Phillips was the pastor at First Methodist Church of Hollywood as early as 1930.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Reverend Briegleb seated at what appears to be the witness stand. He is reading from a legal pad.
Date:: [between 1920-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Reverend Briegleb seated at what appears to be the witness stand. Behind him is an American flag. On the desk are folders of paper. In the bottom is another desk with papers and a briefcase.
Date:: [between 1920-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, “Scenes at Opening of Court Action in Which Former ‘Broadway Angel’ Charges Defamation of Character by Editor,” Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 1935: A1.
Date:: September 7, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Rheba Crawford leans over to whisper to Harriet Jordan while in court. Rheba holds a folder filled with papers and a hat. Harriet has a small purse in her lap and holds a hat on her knee. Both are sitting.
Date:: September 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Lucas sits on the witness stand with his hands folded in his lap.
Date:: February 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: S. W. Strauss & Co. Bond Empire was charged with issuing false bonds when twenty-seven of the bonds they had issued defaulted. Retired lawyer Robert J. McCarthy was called to the witness, having received one of these false bonds.
Date:: [circa November, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Robert Noble, man accused of running a pension scheme, sits in court during his misdemeanor trial. Noble was in court for multiple misdemeanor charges. Approximately 1000 persons who were mainly followers of his pension scheme that offered the elderly with $25 a month pension for a small investment showed their support outside the courthouse.
Date:: November 3, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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