Grand jury indicts George Gollum and Beulah Overell. Santa Ana,
California: Beulah Louise
Overell, 17, and George "Bud" Gollum, 21,
are shown as they appeared in court to answer
indictments charging
them with the boat blast slaying of her parents. At right is
K. W.
Gorton, Newport Beach assistant police chief. May 22, 1947.
Beulah Louise Overell (1) and George Gollum (2), shown with Officers
and Attorneys
in Santa Ana as they arrived for their arraignment, which was
postponed.
Beulah Louise Overell (white arrow) and her fiance, George Gollum
(black arrow), are shown as they
left the court in Santa Ana where they were scheduled for
arraignment. Indictment against the
heiress was suspended by Superior Judge Franklin West of Orange
County and she was certified
to juvenile court. Arraignment of young Gollum was postponed at the
request of his attorney
who asked additional time to enter a plea.
Photo of Deputy Sheriff Reba Crank (left), and Beulah Louise Overell
shown
at the funeral of her parents.
Exterior view of the Orange County Courthouse, rear entrance. This
is the courthouse where
Beulah Louise Overell and George Gollum were being tried for the
deaths of her parents.
Beulah Louise Overell (white arrow) and her fiance, George Gollum
(black arrow),
indicted for the yacht
blast deaths of her parents, are shown when they came
to court in
Santa Ana for arraignment.
Confident of an acquittal, Beulah Louise Overell signs autograph for
George Woods, and investigator.
This is the dramatic scene at the Overell trial today as Beulah
Louise Overell turns her back
on George Gollum and talks to Attorney Z. B. West, right. Previously
she told a reporter,
"I did love Bud," and that she couldn't understand why Bud wrote
such things.
Above, Gollum, looks on without a flicker of emotion.
Photo is a collage of Beulah Louise Overell, George "Bud" Gollum and
Otto A. Jacobs
(background), chief of counsel. Jacobs is pictured as he pleads with
the jury.
Beulah Louise Overell on her first visit to the family home at
Flintridge in six months,
was welcomed by Chard, her cocker spaniel.
Beulah Louise Overell gestures with her fingers as she talks with
Bud Gollum and defense
attorney's during a recess. The defense indicated that it
would move for a dismissal
of
charges against Beulah on contention that the prosecution had
failed to link her to
the
"criminal conspiracy." From Beulah clockwise are: Attorneys Bert
West and
William Beirne;
Gollum, and Attorney Otto Jacobs.
