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Description:: Actor Ben Lyon with his wife, actress Bebe Daniels, during a trial for 36-year-old war veteran Albert F. Holland. Holland's sanity was questioned after he wrote more than 150 love letters to Daniels and claimed to have married her in Mexico. During the case, Holland ran most of his own defense, including a lengthy cross-examination of Lyon. The jury ultimately found Holland to be insane and committed him to the state hospital.
Date:: January 4, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Actor Ben Lyon with his wife, actress Bebe Daniels, during a trial for 36-year-old war veteran Albert F. Holland. Holland's sanity was questioned after he wrote more than 150 love letters to Daniels and claimed to have married her in Mexico. During the case, Holland ran most of his own defense, including a lengthy cross-examination of Lyon. The jury ultimately found Holland to be insane and committed him to the state hospital.
Date:: January 4, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Actor Ben Lyon on the witness stand during a trial for 36-year-old war veteran Albert F. Holland. Holland's sanity was questioned after he wrote more than 150 love letters to Lyon's wife, actress Bebe Daniels, and claimed to have married her in Mexico. During the case, Holland ran most of his own defense, including a lengthy cross-examination of Lyon. The jury ultimately found Holland to be insane and committed him to the state hospital.
Date:: January 4, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, "Former Ring Idol Enacts Death Scene on Witness Stand: DEFENSE CLOSES AS KID REVEALS FAMILY TAINT Ex-Pugilist Enacts His Version of Mrs. Mors's Death Before Jury; Arguments on Monday," Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 1924: A1
Date:: [December 19, 1924]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Watson, George R., 1892-1977
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: On February 7, 1936, District Attorney Buron Fitts was acquitted of perjury regarding a 1931 testimony over the sale of a Claremont orange grove. Mrs. Berthall Gregory, Fitts’ sister, sold the grove to Lucien C. Wheeler. Fitts reportedly falsified the amount of money he received through the sale. The perjury trial lasted three weeks.
Date:: February 7, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Buron Fitts and his legal team at his perjury trial. From left to right, William E. Simpson, Joe Scott, Fitts, Jerry Giesler.
Date:: January 20, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A similar court scene appears in a photo spread titled, "Woman Captures Burglar Suspect at Point of Revolver," Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 1924: 8
Date:: [circa December 1924]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: This photograph is related to the article, "'Trump Card' Letter Runs Riot in Endearing Phrases," Los Angeles Times, 4 May 1927: A8.
Date:: May 4, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Mrs. Nancy Clark, wife of murder suspect David H. Clark. She is seated with a prim look and her bag on her lap. Behind her is a calendar and a bookcase. Photo appears with the article, "Ex-Official Wanted for Murder Quiz: Wife Unable to Believe lark Linked to Killings," Los Angeles Times, 22 May 1931: 2.
Date:: May 31, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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