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Title: Dorothy Garland defends Laurence Thomas, Los Angeles, 1934-1937
Date Created and/or Issued: 1934-1937
1934/1937
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.
Irene Franklin and her husband Jerry Jarnegin accuse their 22-year-old houseboy Laurence Thomas of physically attacking them in their home. Thomas is alleged to have beaten Ms. Franklin with a table leg.
Photograph appears with the article, "House Boy of Actress Bound Over," Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug 1934: A5.
Dorothy stands in the courtroom gesturing with a pencil. Laurence sits next to her resting one hand against his face.
Text from newspaper caption: Defense Attorney Dorothy Garland and Laurence Thomas accused of beating actress and her songwriting husband.
Text from negative sleeve: 9136 - Atty Dorothy May Garland Lawrence Thomas - (relative?) (client?) former Atty -now deceased - [stamped:] Sep 3 1937
Handwritten on negative: Dorothy Garland, Lawrence Thomas Dorothy Garland Lawrence Thomas
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14644
ark:/21198/zz002j88hx
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Courtrooms--California--Los Angeles
Thomas, Laurence, 1911-1967
Garland, Dorothy May, 1905-1937
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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