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Title
Minter diaries seized for Taylor murder investigation
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1937
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
This was taken at Minter's home, located at 509 N. Crescent Drive in Beverly Hills.
Photograph caption dated May 6, 1937 reads, "With her two diaries seized, Mary Miles Minter, above, today was called to appear before the grand jury in a new investigation of the 15-year-old William Desmond Taylor murder mystery. The diaries were those Miss Minter kept before and after Taylor was slain. She said that they contained nothing that amounted to anything and that she had told all she knew of the case."
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;31 x 23 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00105713
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1016
CARL0005239504
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/31083
Subject
Minter, Mary Miles,--1902-1984
Minter, Mary Miles,--1902-1984--Trials, litigation, etc
Minter, Mary Miles,--1902-1984--Homes and haunts
Taylor, William Desmond,--1877-1922--Death and burial
Murder--Investigation
Grand jury--United States
Diaries
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Dwellings--California--Beverly Hills
Interiors--California--Beverly Hills
Fireplaces--California--Beverly Hills
Living rooms--California--Beverly Hills
Books
Beverly Hills (Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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