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

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 (center) and Capt. Bert Wallis of the police homicide squad (right) $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 archival nitrate sleeve: Stettler, Fred; Wallace, Bert; Ledbetter, Miles; Stettler's clock
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Stettler, Fred; Wallace, Bert; Ledbetter, Miles; Stettler's clock
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: LGR (?) Fred Stettler - Bert Wallace

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Subjects

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

Names

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

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image