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District Attorney Buron Fitts and Detective Lieutenant Ed King question Harry W. Gibboney, Los Angeles, 1925

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Title: District Attorney Buron Fitts and Detective Lieutenant Ed King question Harry W. Gibboney, Los Angeles, 1925
Date Created and/or Issued: September 14, 1925
1925-09-14
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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Buron Fitts, left, and Ed King, center, question the motive behind H. W. Gibboney's false testimony. All three are seated--Fitts with a notepad and pen in hand.
This photograph is likely related to the article, "Murder Tale Proves Myth," Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep 1925: A6.
After a 5-hour interrogation by D. A. Fitts and assistants, Harry W. Gibboney admitted he falsely testified to murdering Claude L. Button because he was suicidal and sought death by hanging.
Text from negative sleeve: Gibboney, H. W.
Handwritten on negative: H W Gibboney, Buron Fitz [sic] Ed King
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4865
ark:/21198/zz002ctsc6
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Detectives--California--Los Angeles
Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973
Gibboney, Harry W., b. 1874 or 75
King, Ed
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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