Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. M.R. Watrous sitting in witness stand. Behind him is a black board with a drawing of a room plan. In the judge's bench, a man's head is visible, possibly that of Superior Judge Fricke. This photograph was probably taken when Watrous, a sound technician, testified in Superior Judge Fricke's courtroom at the second trial of Erwin and Helen Werner on liquor license corruption charges. Possibly related to the article, "Weinblatt Story Backed: Reporters Support ex-Aide of Werners on Liquor Evidence," Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 1937: 1. Text from negative sleeve: 5636-- M.R. Watrous, sound technician, put dictograph in Helen Werner's office, Werner Trial, Mar 1 1937, [stamped:] Mar 11 1937.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14333 ark:/21198/zz002j7ws9
Language
English
Subject
Witnesses--California--Los Angeles Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles Watrous, M. R. (Mervin Reynolds), 1903-1967
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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