Accused murderer Fred Stettler showing Capt. Bert Wallis and Det. Lt. Miles Ledbetter money Stettler had stolen and hidden in a potato sack at his home

Item Overview

Title

Accused murderer Fred Stettler showing Capt. Bert Wallis and Det. Lt. Miles Ledbetter money Stettler had stolen and hidden in a potato sack at his home

Date Created

February 21, 1936

Date

1936-02-21

Publisher

Los Angeles Daily News

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Notes

Description

Swiss chauffeur Fred Stettler, accused of the arson murders of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Barbour, showing Det. Lt. Miles Ledbetter (left) and Capt. Bert Wallis of the police homicide squad (center) $34 in silver hidden in a potato sack at Stettler's home. Stettler confessed to stealing the money from the Barbours after murdering them with a heavy object and setting a timing device which would set the bodies on fireNote: text on the nitrate sleeves and handwritten on the negative likely transcribed "Bert Wallis" incorrectly as "Bert Wallace"

Caption

Text from original nitrate sleeve: Stettler, Fred; Wallace, Bert; Ledbetter, Miles; Stettler's clock
Text from archival nitrate sleeve: Stettler, Fred; Wallace, Bert; Ledbetter, Miles; Stettler's clock
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Miles Ledbetter - Bert Wallace - Fred Stettler

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Ledbetter, Miles, 1893-1972
Stettler, Gottfried, b. 1911
Wallis, Bert, 1880-1959

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Detectives--California--Los Angeles
Investigation
Crime
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Disaster
Potatoes