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Buron Fitts, Percy Starmmon, and Herbert Payne watch as Elliot B. Thomas signs a check, Los Angeles, 1932

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Title: Buron Fitts, Percy Starmmon, and Herbert Payne watch as Elliot B. Thomas signs a check, Los Angeles, 1932
Date Created and/or Issued: October 1932
1932-10
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: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Dist.-Atty. Fitts, County Auditor Payne, and Percy observe as Thomas signs a check.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "'Hoaxer' Tells of Fund Theft," Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct 1932: A1.
Thomas confesses to District Attorney Fitts stealing sums totaling $10,000. Thomas has returned $3100.
Text from negative sleeve: THOMAS, ELLIOTT B. KIDNAP CASE, [stamped:] 1932
Handwritten on negative: Elliott Thomas - Buron Fitts, standing LtR - Percy [illegible] - H.A. Payne
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_3769
ark:/21198/zz002cpfb2
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
School superintendents--California--Los Angeles
Checks
Forgeries
Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Starmmon, Percy
Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973
Thomas, Elliot Boal, b. 1896-1981
Payne, Herbert A., 1880-1938
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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