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Title: Judge Newcomb Condee admonishes bicycle rider Eddie Testa, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: December 30, 1935
1935-12-30
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.
Champion California bicycle rider Eddie Testa was arrested for going through a signal at 35 miles an hour by Motorcylce Officer Gus Heere. Judge Condee fined him $10 after observing in a law book that under the State Vehicle Act "traffic laws apply to persons riding bicycles and animals."
Eddie Testa sits positioned on his bicycle holding a ticket while Judge Newcomb points at a section from a law book from the witness box.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Judge Baffled By Case of Speeding Cycle Racer," Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec 1935: A3.
Handwritten on negative: Eddie Testa Judge Newcomb Condee
Text from negative sleeve: 4228 - Judge Newcomb Condee Eddie Testa [stamped:] Dec 31 1935
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13274
ark:/21198/zz002hnfd9
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Judges--California--Los Angeles
Traffic regulations--California--Los Angeles
Bicycles & tricycles--California--Los Angeles
Ticketing--California--Los Angeles
Testa, Edward
Condee, Newcomb, 1898-1974
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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