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Title: If you testify, we'll kill your husband
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1953
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph was edited for publication purposes.; Photograph also used for article dated September 30, 1953.
Photograph caption dated August 26, 1953 reads, "Three phone threats to Dorothy Lamour in Spreckels case told; shown with husband, W.R. Howard III." The threats refer to Dorothy Lamour and William Howard III serving as witnesses and testifying against Adolph Spreckels II, heir to the Spreckels sugar fortune. Spreckels was accused of beating his ex-wife, Kay Williams with her own shoe. Lamour, a close friend of Williams, had been the one to take Williams to the hospital. Spreckels was later found guilty of the beating and served a term of 30 days.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00106250
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 5997
CARL0005279864
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/31347
Subject: Lamour, Dorothy,--1914-1996
Lamour, Dorothy,--1914-1996--Family
Gable, Kathleen--Trials, litigation, etc
Witnesses--California--Costa Mesa
Wife abuse--California--Costa Mesa
Men--California--Costa Mesa
Couples--California--Costa Mesa
Costa Mesa (Calif.)
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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