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Title: Gladys Towles Root
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1932
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Mrs. Gladys Towles Root, pretty Los Angeles attorney and one of the first women attorneys to conduct the defense battle at a California murder trial, on June 6, 1932, defended Moses Cabansag, Filipino, at his Pasadena trial on murder charges in the knifing of Barnardo Asistn. She delivered an eloquent plea for Cabansag. The jury found him guilty of manslaughter.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00050762
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2005.
CARL0000054864
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/23031
Subject: Root, Gladys Towles,--1905-
Cabansag, Moses
Asistn, Barnardo
Crime--California--Los Angeles
Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles
Murder--California--Los Angeles

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