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
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Drunk driving charges against actor Grant Withers were dismissed for lack of evidence. In another accident at the intersection of Wilcox and Elizabeth 5-year-old Adeen Alice Leachman was struck and killed when she walked into oncoming traffic. Photograph appears with the article, "Girl Killed By Traffic," Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr 1935: A1. Court Reporter Morris sits at a table poised with a pen and notepad while behind him Withers sits at the bench in conversation with Justice Holland. Text from newspaper caption: Drunk-driving charges against Grant Withers, film actor, were dismissed for lack of evidence on appearance yesterday. Photo shows, left to right, Withers, Court Reporter Morris (below) and Justice Holland of Beverly Hills. Text from negative sleeve: WITHERS, GRANT 1935 Early movie actor Handwritten on negative: Grant Withers + Judge C.D. Holland 4/8/35
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