Subject: Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Gladys Hamilton and John Carl Whiteley were witnesses to Busby Berkeley's driving that resulted in a car crash that killed three people and badly injured three others. Berkeley was on trial for murder for the third time (the first two juries deadlocked). They testified that he was speeding and drove them off the road.
Date:: April 9, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A gun was found on Al Joseph's body, who was a reported criminal and gunman who used to work for Farmer Page. Milton "Farmer" Page was known for his illegal gambling operations in Los Angeles. He was acquitted and not charged with murder.
Date:: February, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Standing across from photographers, from left to right: defense lawyer Jerome Walsh, William Edward Hickman, assistant jailer Roy Bogle, and Deputy Sheriff Claude Peters.
Date:: [between 1927-1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: In early June, 1934, police officers discovered the bodies of Carrie L. Payne, 45, and Robert Payne, 15, at their Westwood home. They had been brutally murdered by Louis R. Payne, their respective son and brother, in late May. Payne was arrested several days after he committed the crime and after confessing at a Huntington Beach police station. In January, 1935 he plead insanity and was sent to a sanitarium.
Date:: [between June, 1934 and January, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Rodney Pantages (left) and Lloyd Pantages watching the trial of their mother on murder charges. Lois Pantages was convicted of manslaughter for the death of Juro Rokumoto in an automobile crash.
Date:: circa September 11, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Fay Le Gault seated, holding a cigarette in one hand and touching her face with the other, while an unidentified man smoking a cigarette hovers over her and an unidentified woman sits beside her. They appear to be in a courtroom. In the background are people seated in the gallery. In the foreground is a chalkboard. This photograph was probably taken on February 27, 1935 at a coroner's inquest into the murder of Le Gault's husband. The jury recommended that Le Gault be held for trial.
Date:: [February 27, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Glab wears a floral frock and dark cloche hat. One hand is behind her back and in the other she holds a white fur stole.
Date:: March, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A similar photograph appears in "More Stories of Crime Recounted," Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug 1931: A1.
Date:: [circa August 11, 1931]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: In late September, 1935, 19-year-old Thomas Leroy Drake was indicted for the poison-murder of his great-uncle and aunt after he was reportedly dis-inherited from their estate.
Date:: October 2, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Portrait photograph of Manon Von Brieson. Von Brieson survived a September 8, 1935 car accident on the Roosevelt Highway in which film choreographer Busby Berkeley was at fault. Von Brieson's husband William Von Brieson, sister Dorothea "Peggy" Daley, and mother-in-law Ada Von Brieson died as a result of the accident, and Berkeley went on trial for second-degree murder for their deaths in December 1935.
Date:: [between 1931-1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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