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Title: Justine Whitney faces a conviction for embezzlement, Santa Ana, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: January 30, 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
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Justine sits in a chair resting her chin with the finger of one hand.
County recorder Justine Whitney is accused of willful and corrupt misconduct in office. Miss Whitney has taken the stand in her own defense claiming that her inability to settler her accounts on the dates required by law was from extending credit to banks, attorneys, and oil companies who were delayed in paying their bills.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Case Lost By Recorder," Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan 1936: 10.
Handwritten on negative: Miss Justine Whitney
Text from negative sleeve: 3469 - Miss. Justine Whitney, Orange county recorder. On trial for Grand theft. 1/27.36. [stamped:] Jan 31 1936
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12444
ark:/21198/zz002hmfsj
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Judicial proceedings--California--Santa Ana
Older people--California--Santa Ana
Embezzlement--California--Santa Ana
Whitney, Justine, b. 1868 or 69
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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