US UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
Description
Movie-house owner Alexander Pantages was accused of rape by dancer Eunice Pringle. The sensational 1929 Pantages trial included perjurious testimony by Garland Biffle, a law-book salesman. Biffle and his wife Floy Biffle were the only witnesses called by the defense. Reported in "Biffle's Trial Nearing Close: Fate of Pantages' Witnesses in Jury's Hands Today, Wife Defends Book Agent in Perjury Case, Tells of Seeing Dunaev and Miss Pringle Together," Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 1929: A5. Text from negative sleeve: Biffle, Garland & Mrs. Alexander Pantages trial. 1929 Handwritten on negative: Mrs. Garland Biffle
Type
image
Format
b&w glass negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_b3693_G436 ark:/21198/zz0002nfj7
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Witnesses--California--Los Angeles Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles Pringle, Eunice, 1912-1996 Pantages, Alexander, 1876-1936 Biffle, Floy May S., 1894-1971
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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