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Title: Attorney Ames Peterson outside the State Court of Appeal, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: February 28, 1935
1935-02-28
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.
Defense Attorney Ames Peterson outside the Division Two of the Second District of the State Court of Appeal. He was representing Appellate Justice Gavin Craig, accused of conspiracy to bribe the U.S. Attorney in the Italo Petroleum Corporation mail fraud case.
The Italo Petroleum Corporation was originally charged with trying to defraud investors, saddle them with heavy losses over the failed purchase of another oil company. The fraud was allegedly conducted through letters mailed to the investors, hence the charge of mail fraud. Justice Gavin Craig, former political figure Helen Werner, and political lobbyist Joseph Weinblatt were all tried for attempting to bride the U.S. Attorney General on behalf of the Italo Petroleum Corp. Helen Werner was acquitted.
Related to the article, "ITALO CASE EVIDENCE HIT BY DEFENSE: Facts Lacking, Say Attorneys Bribe Plot Count Dismissed; Werner-Craig Action Due in Jury's Hands Today CRAIG-WERNER CASE ATTACKED," Los Angeles Times, 01 Mar 1935: pg. 1.
Text from negative sleeve: Peterson, Ames; Atty., 1935
Handwritten on negative: Atty Ames Peterson 2-28-35
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11238
ark:/21198/zz002h97nj
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Criminal investigations--California
Peterson, Ames
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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