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Jeanne Haskell accuses C. Ray Gilliland and Ralph L. Goetz of swindling her out of $20,000, Los Angeles, 1938

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Title: Jeanne Haskell accuses C. Ray Gilliland and Ralph L. Goetz of swindling her out of $20,000, Los Angeles, 1938
Contributor: Wallace, Gordon Charles, 1909-1992
Date Created and/or Issued: December 20, 1939
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.
Photograph appears with the article, "Trial in Fraud Charges Opens," Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec 1938: 12.
Jeanne looks into the distance as she sits in a chair.
Jeanne Haskell is accusing Hollywood promoters C. Ray Gilliland and Ralph L. Goetz of swindling $20,000 from her claiming that she was buying stocks in a fictitious organization called Dr. W. B. Mayo Laboratories, Inc.
Text from negative sleeve: 15284 - Mrs Jeanne ^Johnson Haskell Swindle Case Victim (patent medicine investment scheme) (former wife of fighter, Max Baer) 12/13/38 L.A. TIMES PHOTO BY GORDON WALLACE [stamped:] Jan 6 1939
Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Jeanne Johnson Haskell of Holmby Hills pictured in court yesterday ready to testify against two promoters in transaction involving medicine stock.
Handwritten on negative: Mrs Jeanne Haskell
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14719
ark:/21198/zz002j8c35
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Actions and defenses--California--Los Angeles
Haskell, Jeanne, b. 1908
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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