Members of the Albert Dyer murder trial jury standing outside with a police officer, Los Angeles, August 1937

Title: Members of the Albert Dyer murder trial jury standing outside with a police officer, 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

Description: Members of the Albert Dyer murder trial jury standing outside with a police officer. (left to right) Unknown police officer, Beatrice Hard, unknown, Harold Harby, Shirley Angranoff, James D. Kelly, Jackson Collins, Grace A. Calvert, Ben D. Fulton, Charles M. Truax, Dorothy Deel, Butler E. Shaw, and George Ritchie. (Winifred W. Howard is missing). The jury was for the trial of 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: Albert Dyer Jury

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Truax, Charles M., 1908-1998
Harby, Harold, 1894-1978
Angranoff, Shirley
Fulton, Ben D., 1870-1965
Deel, Dorothy, 1911-1999
Shaw, Butler E.
Calvert, Grace A.
Kelly, James D.
Dyer, Albert, 1905-1938
Collins, Jackson, 1881-1947
Ritchie, George
Hard, Beatrice
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Girls--California--Los Angeles
Juries--California--Los Angeles
Strangling--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
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