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Helen Mendoza and William Hess during the William Tanner trial, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Helen Mendoza and William Hess during the William Tanner trial, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: August 8, 1935
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Related to the article "Diamond Tooth Woman Asks Tanner Doom Stay," Los Angeles Times, 08 Aug. 1935: 11.
Hess points a finger into Mendoza's face as she rests her elbow against a table and an unidentified person is partially photographed in the background.
Helen Mendoza's testimony is used to corroborate in favor with her friend William E. Tanner, accused of kidnapping and torturing attorney Henry Bodkin, of which he is sentenced to hang for. Mendoza appeals to Dep. Dist.-Atty. Stahlman with Tanner's lawyer, Hess.
Text from negative sleeve: 1851 - Helen Mendoza - atty H. Wm Hess - Atty Bodkin Case) [stamped:] Sep 4 - 1935
Handwritten on negative: Helen Mendoza H. Wm. Hess
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_8157
ark:/21198/zz002dg04d
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Mendoza, Helen
Hess, H. William, (Attorney)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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