Edward Wehrly, the driver in a fatal traffic accident, testifies at the coroner's inquest, Los Angeles, 1932

Title: Edward Wehrly, the driver in a fatal traffic accident, testifies at the coroner's inquest, Los Angeles, 1932
Date Created: December 30, 1932
Date: 1932-12-30
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Teenager Edward Wehrly testifies during the coroner's inquest about a fatal, single-car accident in which two teenage girls were killed and a young man was serious injured. Wehrly claimed a strong wind gust caused the accident, but the ruling at the inquest was that he did not take proper precautions.
This photograph appears with the article, "Young Motorist Lays Crash to Wind; Driver Blamed in Deaths." Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 1932: A2.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Webster, W. W.Atty. [Misfiled negative, should be with negative sleeve uclams_1429_4304: W. W. Webster]
Text from newspaper caption: Scene at Inquest. Deputy Corner Monfort on bench and Edward Wehrly, driver of ill-fated car, testifying in witness box.
Handwritten on negative: L to R: Montfort [sic] and Edward Wehrly

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
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