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Coroner Frank Nance listens to testimony from Roland West at the grand jury hearings into death of actress Thelma Todd, December 18, 1935

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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
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
Text from original nitrate sleeve: West, Roland; Nance, Frank, Coroner.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Coroner Frank Nance, Roland West, 12,521
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: 12521
uclamss_1387_12521-01
ark:/21198/zz002552bj
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Grand juries
Crime
Legal
Motion picture producers & directors--American--California--Los Angeles
West, Roland, 1885-1952
Nance, Frank A. (Frank Albert), 1875-1950
Todd, Thelma, 1905-1935
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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