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Title: Leafie Sloan-Orcutt on the witness stand, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: May 8, 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.
Mrs. Sloan-Orcutt was falsely promised $500 a month from promoter Bayard E. Weibert.
A close-up picture from the shoulders up of Mrs. Sloan-Orcutt sitting in the witness stand.
Photograph appears with the article, "Transfer of Stocks to Weibert Described," Los Angeles Times, 09 May 1936: A3.
Text from negative sleeve: 5151 - Mrs. Leafy Sloan Orcutt (candid) (society woman - victim of weibert fraud) Weibert case 5-8-36 [stamped:] May 10 1936
Text from newspaper caption: "Money, money-he was always talking of money," said Mrs. Leafie Sloan-Orcutt, society woman, as she sat on the witness stand testifying against Bayard E. Weibert, Hollywood promoter, charged with grand theft.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14232
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Portrait photographs
Courtrooms--California--Los Angeles
Sloan-Orcutt, Leafie (Elizabeth Sloan-Orcutt), 1865-1955
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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