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Lucien C. Wheeler before taking witness stand in Buron Fitts's perjury trial, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Lucien C. Wheeler before taking witness stand in Buron Fitts's perjury trial, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: January 27, 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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
This photograph appears with the article, "Fitts Trial Prosecutor Loses Tilt," Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan 1936: 1.
In January 1936, District Attorney Buron Fitts was charged with 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 falsely testified the amount of money he received through the sale.
Wheeler stands in front of a water fountain in the hallway outside of the courtroom where the perjury trial is underway.
Text from negative sleeve: 3409 -- Lucien C. Wheeler Fitts Case 1-27-36 [stamped:] JAN 29 1936
Text from newspaper caption: Lucien Wheeler, former chief of the bureau of investigation for the District Attorney's office, shown just before he took the witness stand at BUron Fitts's perjury trial.
Handwritten on negative: Lucien C. Wheeler 1-27-36
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12395
ark:/21198/zz002h8fcv
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Wheeler, Lucien Charles, 1878-1950
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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