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

Caption

Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Albert Dyer trial
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Dyer, Albert

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Dyer, Albert, 1905-1938

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Girls--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Courtrooms--California--Los Angeles
Strangling--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Legal