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Worth S. Fitts, Marion Fitts, and Buron Fitts after perjury acquittal, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Worth S. Fitts, Marion Fitts, and Buron Fitts after perjury acquittal, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: February 7, 1936
1936-02-07
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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Buron Fitts gives his wife Marion a kiss to celebrate a successful trial. Fitts’ father, Worth, stands to Marion’s right.
On February 7, 1936, District Attorney Buron Fitts was acquitted of perjury regarding a 1931 testimony over the sale of a Claremont orange grove. Mrs. Berthall Gregory, Fitts’ sister, sold the grove to Lucien C. Wheeler. Fitts reportedly falsified the amount of money he received through the sale. The perjury trial lasted three weeks.
This photograph is possibly related to the article, “Jurors Acquit Fitts of Perjury Charges,’ Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb 1936: 1-2.
Handwritten on negative: Buron Fitts + wife + father after trial 2-7-36
Text from negative sleeve: 3268 --- 2/11/36 Buron Fitts, Mrs Buron Fitts, Jerry Geisler, W M Simpson, Bobby “, Mrs W M “, Roy Keane, Mrs Chas Phillips, Fits Jury Comes in with verdict 2-7-36
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12155
ark:/21198/zz002h853v
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Spouses--California--Los Angeles
Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973
Fitts, Marion, 1893-1985
Fitts, Worth Stickley, 1871-1969
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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