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Photograph caption reads: "Principal witnesses in the Gonzales murder trial which opened today in Superior Court are shown here. Lower left is Mrs. Bessie Hensley with her daughter, Barbara, who found Mrs. Sparks' body in a shallow grave in the hills above Roscoe. Mrs. Hensley has told police she saw what she believes was the killing as she hiked through Lanark Canyon the afternoon Mrs. Sparks disappeared". Ramon Gonzales was put on trial for the murder of Mrs. Diane Sparks, his next-door neighbor, whose body was found in an abandoned olive grove a month after she was reported missing. He was found innocent. Photograph dated: July 17, 1946.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;19 x 16 cm. Photographic prints
Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles Witnesses--California--Los Angeles Mothers and daughters--California--Los Angeles Sun Valley (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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