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

Item Overview

Title

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

Date Created

August, 1937

Publisher

Los Angeles Daily News

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Notes

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

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Subjects

Strangling--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Legal
Police--California--Los Angeles
Girls--California--Los Angeles
Juries--California--Los Angeles

Names

Hard, Beatrice
Angranoff, Shirley
Shaw, Butler E.
Dyer, Albert, 1905-1938
Deel, Dorothy, 1911-1999
Harby, Harold, 1894-1978
Calvert, Grace A.
Kelly, James D.
Fulton, Ben D., 1870-1965
Collins, Jackson, 1881-1947
Ritchie, George
Truax, Charles M., 1908-1998

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image