Louis Rude Payne stands with detectives Wallis and Whitehead at his inquest, June 6, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Louis Rude Payne stands with detectives Wallis and Whitehead at his inquest, June 6, 1934

Date Created

June 6, 1934

Publisher

Los Angeles Daily News

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Notes

Description

Louis Payne stands with Detective Joe Whitehead and Captain of Detectives H.J. Wallis on the day of his inquest, June 6, 1934.Louis Rude Payne, 21 years of age, used a camping axe to kill his mother, Carrie L. Payne, and 15-year-old brother Robert. Louis R. Payne turned himself in for the killings of his mother and brother four to five days after their deaths. When he turned himself in, police found on his person both a letter and a telegram addressed to his father Lucius Payne, a St. Louis businessman, confessing to the crime, apologizing for his actions, and explaning that he did not know what impulse it was that drove him to the murders.Payne was convicted of the two murders, but found to be insane at the time of the crimes. He was confined to psychiatric treatment at the Mendocino State Hospital at Talmadge, in Mendocino County, CA. His father stood by him throughout his trial and conviction.

Caption

Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Louis Rude Payne with detectives.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Payne, Louis R.; Payne, Lucius; crowd at Payne inquest

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Subjects

People
Crime
Fratricides--California--Los Angeles
Legal
Parricide--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles

Names

Payne, Louis Rude
Wallis, Bert, 1880-1959
Whitehead, Joe

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image