No sign of elation shows in the face of Beulah Louise Overell,
second from the left, as she leaves
the Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana, where she just won an
important victory.
The Court ordered her freed on $50,000 bail.
Acquitted of murder charges, Beulah Louise Overell is shown leaving
through the back door
of the Santa Ana jail for the last time. Asked whether she will
marry George Gollum,
the heiress replied, "No!" But, he is a grand guy," she said.
Passing before some of the many spectators who jammed the stairway
and doorway of the
courthouse, Beulah Louise Overell (arrow) and George Gollum are
shown arriving for their
trial. The sensation-filled case was enlivened by the release of the
final installment
of Beulah's diaries.
This is the jury's eye-view of Beulah Louise Overell (arrow) as she
testified from the witness stand.
The heiress dramatically described the happenings on "death day"
aboard the yacht Mary E, and
said that her father asked George Gollum by telephone to buy some
dynamite for him on the
day before the yacht was exploded.
Beulah Louise Overell, testifying in her own defense, is shown as
she made a drawing of the Overell
home, while her attorney, Otto Jacobs, looked on. Her sweetheart,
George Gollum (arrow), sits tensely
at the table. In her opening testimony, Beulah told the jury the
story of her romance with Gollum.
The prosecution staff claims the yacht on which Mr. and Mrs. Overell
met their deaths was blown up.
Photographers watch as Roger Greene, Prosecution criminologist,
re-enacts the yacht blast.
A puff of smoke floates into the air as the ignition head of a
detonator cap is set off by a
dry cell battery hooked up to an alarm clock.
Hundreds of spectators jammed the sidewalk outside the Orange County
court house
as Miss Overell and Gollum (arrows) leave jail for the trial. They
were escorted by
officers from the jail to the courtroom.
Bud Gollum is shown testifying in the Overell murder trial.
Gollum on the witness
stand is questioned by his own attorney, William Bierne.
Jurors in the Overell yacht blast murder trial visit the site of
the deaths of Walter E. Overell and his
wife, Beulah A. Overell- the
yacht Mary E. Jurors went through the craft four at a time to
familiarize
themselves with the nautical names for the various parts
of the craft. Over the course of the case,
the defendant and the
jurors toured the yacht twice at the South Coast Co. boat yards,
where it was impounded.
Remains of a time bomb were found by investigators of the yacht
explosion. Unexploded sticks of
dynamite are shown attached to a
time clock (left) and the ship's clock (right) records the exact
time of explosion. A length of wire of the same type used to rig the
dynamite was found in a car
belonging to defendant Bud Gollum.
