Accused killer Louise Peete is escorted to court by her husband and a bailiff, Los Angeles, 1921

Title: Accused killer Louise Peete is escorted to court by her husband and a bailiff, Los Angeles, 1921
Date Created: [January 1921-February 1921]
Date: 1921-01/1921-02
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Louise Peete was convicted on Feb. 5, 1921 of first-degree murder in the death of Jacob Denton. She served 18 years in San Quentin before being released. In 1945 she was convicted of a second murder, this time of Margaret Logan, a wealthy woman who had supported Peete while she was in prison. For the second murder she was given the death penalty, and in 1947 became the second woman to be executed in California.
Accused killer Louise Peete (center in the group of three people walking on a path) is escorted to court by her husband, Richard, (on her right) and bailiff Martin Aguirre. Nearby are manyl.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Peete, Louise, Case

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Aguirre, Martin G., b. 1871 or 1872
Peete, Richard, 1883-1924
Peete, Louise, 1888-1947
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_11189
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002h95z7
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Rights Country: US
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