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Title
Coroner Frank Nance listens to testimony from Roland West at the grand jury hearings into death of actress Thelma Todd, December 18, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued
December 18, 1935
1935-12-18
Publication Information
Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information
US
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
West testifies at grand jury hearings to determine Todd’s cause of death. Todd was found in the garage of film director West, her business partner and lover, dead from carbon monoxide poisoning. Nance was Los Angeles Country Coroner 1921-1945. Todd's death was eventually ruled an accident.
Text from archival nitrate sleeve: West, Roland; Nance, Frank, coroner
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Coroner Frank Nance, Roland West, 12,521
Text from original nitrate sleeve: West, Roland; Nance, Frank, Coroner.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
ark:/21198/zz002552bj
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Motion picture producers & directors--American--California--Los Angeles
Grand juries
Crime
Legal
Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
West, Roland, 1885-1952
Todd, Thelma, 1905-1935
Nance, Frank A. (Frank Albert), 1875-1950
Source
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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