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Title: Oda Aument, witness in the Louise Peete murder trial, Los Angeles, 1921
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa January-February 1921]
1921-01/1921-02
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Oda Aument seated in a chair with her hands in her lap. She wears an overcoat, hat, and gloves. She smiles warmly and looks to the left. Oda Aument was the niece of mining engineer Jacob Charles Denton. Denton was murdered by Louise Peete in 1920, a crime for which Peete received a sentencing of life in prison in 1921. Aument aided in this sentencing with her particularly damning testimony. Reported on in "Denton Heiress to Take Stand: Due to Testify Tomorrow in Trial of Mrs. Peete" Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 1921: I10 and in "Woman's Testimony Hits Hardest at Mrs. Peete: Mrs. Aument State's Star Witness of Day at the Murder Trial; Bloody Rope to be Shown Today," Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 1921: II1.
Handwritten on negative: Mrs Oda Aument
Text from negative sleeve: Aument, Oda Mrs.
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3691_G198
ark:/21198/z14v2b5w
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Aument, Oda L., 1894-1987
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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