Albert Dyer murder trial juror Harby Harold breaks the tension for fellow jurors Shirley Angranoff, Butler E. Shaw, George Ritchie, and James D. Kelly, Los Angeles, August 1937

Item Overview

Title

Albert Dyer murder trial juror Harby Harold breaks the tension for fellow jurors Shirley Angranoff, Butler E. Shaw, George Ritchie, and James D. Kelly, Los Angeles, August 1937

Date Created

between August 25 and 27, 1937

Date

1937-08-25/1937-08-27

Publisher

Los Angeles Daily News

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Notes

Description

Juror Harold Harby (bottom left) lifts his foot in the air to break the tension during the Albert Dyer trial. Fellow jurors (left to right) Shirley Angranoff, Butler E. Shaw, George Ritchie, and James D. Kelly laugh. The trial was for Albert Dyer, a 32 year old W.P.A crossing guard who confessed to the murders of three Inglewood girls. Dyer admitted to luring the girls; 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. 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

Text from original nitrate sleeve: Dyer, Albert - Jury; Hard?[sic], Beatrice - Mrs. and other members of trial jury; "Bull pen door"
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Harold Harby

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Harby, Harold, 1894-1978
Angranoff, Shirley
Ritchie, George
Shaw, Butler E.
Kelly, James D.
Dyer, Albert, 1905-1938

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Girls--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Juries--California--Los Angeles
Crime
Strangling--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Legal
Disaster