Prisoners digging for bones on Northcott Chicken Ranch, Riverside County, 1928-1929
Item Overview
- Title
- Prisoners digging for bones on Northcott Chicken Ranch, Riverside County, 1928-1929
- Date Created
- [between 1928-1920]
- Date
- 1928/1929
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
-
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Notes
- Description
- Gordon Stewart Northcott was accused of kidnapping, abusing & murdering 3 boys on a chicken ranch in Riverside County. His mother, Louisa Northcott, confessed to killing one boy, Walter Collins, and was sentenced to life in prison. Gordon was tried and convicted on 3 counts for murdering Louis & Nelson Winslow & an unidentified Latino boy. He was executed by hanging on October 2, 1930.
- Caption
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Handwritten on negative: Gordon. Digging for bones on Northcott Ranch
Text from negative sleeve: Northcott Murder Case. Wineville Chicken Ranch.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Dimensions
- 10 x 12.5 cm.
- Medium
- b&w glass negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
news photographs
glass plate negatives - Names
- Northcott, Gordon Stewart, 1906?-1930
- Location
- Riverside County (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- Crime scene searches--California--Riverside County
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_b3719_G3411
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0002pjw9
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US