Subject: Lawyers--California--Beverly Hills - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Betsey Cushing Roosevelt being photographed with attorney Basil O'Connor (left) and her brother Henry Cushing as she arrived in Los Angeles for her divorce suit against husband James Roosevelt, the eldest son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Roosevelts were married for ten years before they separated and Mrs. Roosevelt moved from Los Angeles back to New York, taking the couple's two daughters. James Roosevelt was the first to file for divorce, citing desertion against his wife
Date:: February 29, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A photograph of Chief of Beverly Hills Police Charles C. Blair, District Attorney Buron Fitts, and lawyer Ernest E. Noon. The three men were involved in the search for kidnapping victim William F. Gettle and the prosecution of the kidnappers after Gettle's safe recovery.Charles C. Blair was the first Chief of Police of Beverly Hills, serving from 1927-1942. Ernest E. Noon was the attorney of the Gettle family. He was intimitely involved with the attempts to recover William F. Gettle, directing via the Los Angeles Times that the kidnappers send any ransom requests to him, as Mrs. Fleeta Gettle was ill with nervous prostration after the kidnapping of her husband and under medical supervision.Buron Fitts was the district attorney of Los Angeles from 1928-1940. Fitts was in charge of co-ordinating the police agencies in their search for Gettle and his kidnappers.
Date:: [circa May, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: This photograph is related to the article, “GETTLE LAWYER'S DATA MAY IDENTIFY CLIENT'S KIDNAPERS: He Returns From Mystery Trip and Declares ‘Important Information’ Received; Victim's Wife Authorizes Meeting Any Ransom Demand,” Los Angeles Times, 11 May 1934: 1, and subsequent articles appearing in the Los Angeles Times.
Date:: [circa May 9-15, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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