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Title
Dave Coleman, district attorney, questioning complaining witnesses Madam Nan Kee and Miss Hilda Parvey for Earl W. Taylor trial, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued
September 1935
1935-09
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.
This photograph appears with the article, "Woman Says Effort Was Made to Poison Her: Witnesses Under Guard in Writers' Agent Case." Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 1935: A1
View of District Attorney Dave Coleman, left, in glasses, collared shirt, tie, jacket, chin resting in hand, Miss Hilda Parvey, center, in hat, shirt, jacket, holding clutch in lap, and Madam Nan Kee, right, in hat, lace shirt, jacket, arm resting on table. Miss Hilda Parvey, writer, claimed Earl Taylor induced her to pay him $50 under promises that he would sell her writing, and that a mysterious effort was made to poison her. Madam Nan Kee, writer, claimed Earl Taylor induced her to pay him $90 under promises of selling her manuscript, and that attempts had been made to kidnap her and that a mysterious assailant had fired a shot at her through her home. Mr. Taylor was acquitted by the jury on October 14, 1935.
Handwritten on negative: Madam Nan Kee, Miss Hilda Parvey, Dave Coleman
Text from newspaper caption: An asserted poison plot was under investigation yesterday in connection with the forth-coming trial of Earl Taylor, writers' agent, on charges of swindling. Miss Hilda Parvey, center, one of the complaining witnesses, who said a mysterious effort to poison her had been made a week ago, and Mme. Nan Kee, another witness, are shown being questioned by Dep. Dist-Atty. Coleman.
Text from negative sleeve: 2199, Madam Nan Kee, Hilda Parvey, Dave Coleman Dys. DA, Scenario Racket, [stamped:] Sep 26 1935
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_8589
ark:/21198/zz002dgh13
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Authors--American--California--Los Angeles
Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Parvey, Hilda
Coleman, Dave
Kee, Nan, Madam
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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