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Photograph caption reads: "Principal witnesses in the Gonzales murder trial which opened today in Superior Court are shown here. Upper left is George Sparks, Los Angeles policemen, whose wife, the beautiful Diane Sparks, was murdered last Jan. 29". Ramon Gonzales was put on trial for the murder of Mrs. Diane Sparks, his next-door neighbor, whose body was found in an abandoned olive grove a month after she was reported missing. He was found innocent. Photograph dated: July 17, 1946.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;18 x 13 cm. Photographic prints
Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles Victims of crimes--California--Los Angeles Sun Valley (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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