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Mary Ruth Spellman was one of the surviving drivers involved in a fatal car collision, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Mary Ruth Spellman was one of the surviving drivers involved in a fatal car collision, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: November 1935
1935-11
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.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Auto Takes Man's Life," Los Angeles Times, 02 Nov 1935: A1.
In Municipal Judge Crum's court 37-year-old William Harmon was found not guilty of a drunk driving charge after he was arrested on September 20th after a collision between his car and another driven by 24-year-old Mary Ruth Spellman.
Mary Ruth smiles standing at the end of the staircase.
Text from negative sleeve: 2780 - Mary Ruth Spellman 11-1-35 Drunk Auto Case Witness former actress [stamped:] Nov 11 1935
Handwritten on negative: Mary Ruth Spellman 11-1-35
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_9289
ark:/21198/zz002dhb56
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Drunk driving--California--Los Angeles
Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Spellman, Mary Ruth, b. 1913
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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