Three suspects in the robbery and murder of Amanda E. Watson are questioned by police, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Three suspects in the robbery and murder of Amanda E. Watson are questioned by police, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: February 9, 1935
Date: 1935-02-09
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Three suspects in the robbery and murder of Amanda E. Watson are questioned by police. Ultimately only Leslie Fesperman was convicted of the crime.
This photograph appears with the article, "Death Plot Confessed; Death Mystery Solution Near; Four arrested in Widow Killing." Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 1935: 10.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Watson, Amanda E. Murder Case, 1935
Text from newspaper caption: The brutal slaying of Mrs. Amanda E. Watson is believed solved with the arrest of Leslie Fesperman. In this picture, left to right, Detective Lieutenants Jones and Hurst (standing) and Capt. Wallis (seated) are questioning Claude Lane, Fesperman and George Mathias, also a suspect. Lane is being held as a material witness.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Mathias, George
Wallis, Bert, 1880-1959
Lane, Claude
Fesperman, Leslie, 1900-1959
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Homicides--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_4280
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cq1z1
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