Image / District Attorney David L'Esperance and Dorothy Dunbar Wells, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: District Attorney David L'Esperance and Dorothy Dunbar Wells, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: January 29, 1936
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.
Former wife of boxer Max Baer is taking Jerry Miley to court with the help of district attorney L'Esperance on charges of grand theft.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Oil Venture Bilking Told," Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan 1936: A2.
D.A. L'Esperance sits beside Dorothy at a desk strewn with papers, rulers, a sleeve of matches and a box of Camel cigarettes.
Handwritten on negative: L2R Dep D. A David L'Esperance + Dorothy Dunbar Wells 1-23-36
Text from negative sleeve: 3349 - Dorothy Dunbar Wells David L'Esperance Dep. DA Max Baer x wife (actor) 1-23-36 [stamped:] Jan 29 1936
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12341
ark:/21198/zz002h8chz
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Crimes--California--Los Angeles
L' Esperance, David, 1874-1942
Dunbar, Dorothy 1902-1992
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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