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Description:: Public defender Ellery Cuff indicating a point on a map at his client Albert Dyer's murder trial. Dyer lured three Inglewood girls to the hills, where he strangled them to death with his hands as well as rope. Albert Dyer is seated wearing a white shirt.
Date:: [circa August 10, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the witness stand. A court stenographer is visible, recording Wright's statements. Wright, an airport executive, shot his wife and his best friend while they sat together on a piano bench. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Date:: [circa January 13, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The jury for the trial of accused murderer Paul A. Wright. The airline executive was charged with the shooting deaths of his wife Evelyn and best friend John Kimmel, whom he claimed to have caught in an "inappropriate" embrace in the Wright home.Wright's defense team, led by famed Los Angeles defense attorney Jerry Giesler, argued that Wright was not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury found Wright guilty of two counts of manslaughter, and subsequently ruled that he had been insane at his sanity trial.
Date:: [between January 17-February 18, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mrs. Antibus sued Mr. Warner Sr. after her home was raided by Buron Fitts and several of his deputies at the request of Mr. Warner. The raid of Mrs. Antibus' home was conducted in order to search for Mr. Warner's son, Thomas W. Warner, Jr. Mr. Warner, Jr. was found hiding inside the home with his girlfriend Mrs. Jean MacDonald. The pair had been hiding in the home from Mr. Warner, Sr. who was opposed to their relationship and was seeking to end all contact between the pair. Mrs. Antibus served as a private detective for Mr. Warner, Jr. and had previously conducted an investigation into the life of Mrs. MacDonald in attempt to determine whether she was truly in love with Mr. Warner, Jr. Mrs. Antibus alleged that the raid left several of her visitors injured and was unnecessarily violent.
Date:: April 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Unidentified hearing in courtroom. One man standing, possibly testifying as a witness. On the table are small model cars and a small figure of a man
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Unidentified hearing in courtroom. One woman standing, possibly testifying as a witness.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Betty Flay Hardaker on trial at the inquest conducted by Deputy Coroner Frank Monfort. Mrs. Hardaker was convicted of murdering her 5 year old daugher, Geraldine Hardaker, in a Montebello park washroom. The jury convicted her of committing the crime while of unsound mind.
Date:: February 23, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Unidentified hearing in courtroom. One man standing, possibly testifying as a witness. On the table are small model cars and a small figure of a man.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Betty Flay Hardaker takes an oath while on trial for murder. Mrs. Hardaker was convicted of murdering her 5 year old daugher, Geraldine Hardaker, in a Montebello park washroom. The jury convicted her of committing the crime while of unsound mind.
Date:: February 23, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: County Jail building with collapsed facade and tilted floors, rubble and lamppost in foreground, with trees at left and right. The jail was located on the block occupied by the current courthouse, probably near the curernt Hall of Records on the west corner of the block.
Date:: June 29, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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