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Title: Judge Newcomb Condee admonishes bicycle rider Eddie Testa, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: December 30, 1935
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.
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.
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."
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: Bicycles & tricycles--California--Los Angeles
Traffic regulations--California--Los Angeles
Judges--California--Los Angeles
Ticketing--California--Los Angeles
Condee, Newcomb, 1898-1974
Testa, Edward
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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