Charlotte Shelby and attorneys in District Attorney Buron Fitts' office, Los Angeles, 1932

Item Overview

Title

Charlotte Shelby and attorneys in District Attorney Buron Fitts' office, Los Angeles, 1932

Date Created

1932

Date

1932

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Charlotte Shelby, in fur-trimmed coat and hat, seated in Buron Fitts' office, with Buron Fitts, seated at desk, and Hewlings Mumper, Robert P. Stewart, and Percy V. Hammon, standing
Related to Los Angeles Times article, December 24, 1932, Henry Case Federal Quiz on Income Tax Looms, Mrs. Shelby’s Counsel Says Client Paid on Bonds Clubman Had Sold; Victim Agrees to Assist Jury. Action by the Federal authorities loomed last night in the case of Leslie B . Henry … charged with grand theft in connection with manipulating the $500,000 security account of Mrs. Charlotte Shelby, mother of Mary Miles Minter. … Attorney Hewlings Mumper represent[s] Mrs. Shelby … commenced a lengthy conference with Dist.-Atty. Fitts, Chief Deputy District-Attorney Stewart and Dep. Dist.-Atty. Hammond …

Caption

Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Shelby, Charlotte Mrs., 1928
Handwritten at edge of negative: Standing LtoR, Hewlings Mumper, Robert P. Stewart, Percy V. Hammon, Seated LtoR Mrs. Charlotte Shelby, Buron Fitts

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973
Hammon, Percy Vernon, 1873-1958
Stewart, Robert P., 1878-1936
Mumper, Hewlings, 1889-1968
Shelby, Charlotte Miles, 1879-1957

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Legal
Government