Scene from the Albert Dyer murder trial, Los Angeles, August 1937
Item Overview
- Title
- Scene from the Albert Dyer murder trial, Los Angeles, August 1937
- Date Created
- August 1937
- Date
- 1937-08
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Scene from the Albert Dyer murder trial. Dyer, a 32 year old W.P.A crossing guard, confessed to the murders of three Inglewood girls. Dyer admitted to luring Madeline Everett (9), Melba Everett (7), and Jeanette Stephens (8) into the woods on the pretense of helping them catch rabbits and then strangled them in succession. Extra deputy sheriffs were on guard outside the trial to control the crowds of angry and thrill-seeking people they expected would come to witness the trial of this heinous crime. Dyer was sentenced to death after the jury's two day debate. On September 16, 1938 at San Quentin Prison, Dyer was one of the last people to be hung in the state of California
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- Dyer, Albert, 1905-1938
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Girls--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Courtrooms--California--Los Angeles
Strangling--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
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- copyrighted
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- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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