Courtroom scene during Gordon Stewart Northcott's murder trial, Riverside, 1929
Item Overview
- Title
- Courtroom scene during Gordon Stewart Northcott's murder trial, Riverside, 1929
- Date Created
- 1929
- Date
- 1929
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
- Gordon Stewart Northcott was accused of kidnapping, molesting, torturing, and brutally murdering three young boys and aiding in the murder of another in 1928, which his mother admitted to. She received a life sentence in jail. Northcott was found guilty on all accounts and was executed by hanging on October 2, 1930 at the age of 23.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w glass negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
news photographs
glass plate negatives - Names
- Northcott, Gordon Stewart, 1906?-1930
- Location
- Riverside (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
Judicial proceedings--California--Riverside
Serial murderers--California--Riverside
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_b3709_G2195
- ARK
- ark:/21198/z1jm83md
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US