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) 825-2387
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Attorney Lucas F. Smith and District Attorney’s investigator Duffey Seay, both in suits and ties, standing, indoors near door This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, March 6, 1934, Pair Periled in Auto Plunge, Two Escape as Lawyer’s Auto Plunges Down Hill, Attorney, Facing Investigation on Estate Funds, and Fitts’s Aide in 250-Foot Descent. Facing investigation in connection with his handling of the estate of Mrs. Mary J. Chamberlain, Lucas F. Smith, an attorney, was reported by authorities yesterday afternoon to have been in a spectacular dash of his automobile, in which a District Attorney’s investigator, Duffey Seay, was also riding, through a heavy rail on Huntley Drive and a careening trip of some 250 feet down a precipitous hill leading to Second street. Neither of the two was injured to any extent and the car remained upright … Handwritten at edge of negative: Lucas F. Smith & Duffey Seay Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Smith, Lucas F., 1934
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
2936 uclamss_1429_2936 ark:/21198/zz002cm1rk
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Disaster People Smith, Lucas Folsom, 1886-1954 Seay, Wellford Duffy, 1890-1973
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