Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Attorney S.S. Hahn seated at table with his client, Lorraine Wiseman. Hahn is looking at a stack of papers. Wiseman is looking at him. This photograph was possibly taken in Hahn's office on September 13, 1926, where Wiseman spoke to the press after being arraigned for issuing checks without funds. Wiseman was a co-defendant in the Aimee Semple McPherson conspiracy trial, having admitted that she had falsely claimed to be Miss X, the woman believed to in fact be McPherson who had been with Kenneth G. Ormiston at a Carmel rental cottage. A photograph of Wiseman in the same outfit appears with the article, "IMPOSTOR GETS LIBERTY ON BAIL: 'What a Relief!' Exclaims 'Miss X' Case Figure Fear Expressed in Court of 'the Angelus People' Mrs. Sielaff Goes in Hiding Following Release," Los Angeles Times, 14 Sept. 1926: A1. Text from newspaper caption: Secret Repository Yields New Data in Hoax [Los Angeles Times, 14 Sept. 1926: A1] Text from negative sleeve: Wiseman, Lorraine.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_4531 ark:/21198/zz002cqbm6
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Lawyers--California--Los Angeles Trials--California--Los Angeles Wiseman, Lorraine, b. 1889 or 90 McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944 Trials, litigation, etc Hahn, S. S. (Samuel S.), 1889-1957
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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