Mary Ruth Spellman was one of the surviving drivers involved in a fatal car collision, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Mary Ruth Spellman was one of the surviving drivers involved in a fatal car collision, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: November 1935
Date: 1935-11
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Auto Takes Man's Life," Los Angeles Times, 02 Nov 1935: A1.
In Municipal Judge Crum's court 37-year-old William Harmon was found not guilty of a drunk driving charge after he was arrested on September 20th after a collision between his car and another driven by 24-year-old Mary Ruth Spellman.
Mary Ruth smiles standing at the end of the staircase.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 2780 - Mary Ruth Spellman 11-1-35 Drunk Auto Case Witness former actress [stamped:] Nov 11 1935
Handwritten on negative: Mary Ruth Spellman 11-1-35

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Spellman, Mary Ruth, b. 1913
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Drunk driving--California--Los Angeles
Witnesses--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_9289
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dhb56
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