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Judge Sidney Reeve at the bench during the Madalynne Obenchain murder trial, Los Angeles, circa 1921

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Title: Judge Sidney Reeve at the bench during the Madalynne Obenchain murder trial, Los Angeles, circa 1921
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa 1921]
1921
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: Judge Sidney N. Reeve sits at the bench in a courtroom, possibly during the Arthur Bench murder trial of December 1921. Madalynne Obenchain was tried and acquitted for the murder of J. Belton Kennedy. A similar photograph appears with the article "VICE LAID TO KENNEDY; SEE NEW DEATH MOTIVE.: Witness Tells Madalynne's Story; State Tries to Show Burch, at Scene of Murder. Mystery Witness on Stand. CHARACTER OF KENNEDY HIT; Story of Broker's Purported Weakness is Told; Testimony Seen as Pointing to New Motive; Try to Show Burch on Spot at Time of Murder," Los Angeles Times, 08 Dec. 1921: II1.
Handwritten on negative: Judge S. Reeve
Text from negative sleeve: Reeve, Sidney. Judge.
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3725_G4150
ark:/21198/z18d5p6c
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Judges--California--Los Angeles
Trials, litigation, etc
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Courtrooms--California--Los Angeles
Reeve, Sidney N., 1877-1927
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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