Captain Walter E. Hegi of the Glendale Police Dept. and Paul A. Wright leaving the office of coroner Frank Nance, Los Angeles, November 9, 1937

Item Overview

Title

Captain Walter E. Hegi of the Glendale Police Dept. and Paul A. Wright leaving the office of coroner Frank Nance, Los Angeles, November 9, 1937

Date Created

November 9, 1937

Date

1937-11-09

Publisher

Los Angeles Daily News

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Notes

Description

Captain Walter E. Hegi of the Glendale police dept. (left) and airline official Paul A. Wright leaving the office of Coroner Frank Nance. Nance was examining the bodies of Wright's wife Evelyn and best friend John Kimmel. Unfortunately he received the bodies after they had been embalmed. Mrs. Wright and Kimmel had been shot, and Mr. Wright had confessed to the crime, having caught his wife and best friend in an embrace. In the trial that followed, called the "White Flame" trial by the press, Wright eventually escaped the death pentalty and a prison sentence on an insanity plea, thanks to his lawyer Jerry Giesler

Caption

Text from original nitrate sleeve: Wright, Paul A.; Geisler, Jerry, Att.; Hegi, W. Capt.; Nance, Frank, Coroner
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: L-R Capt. W. Hegi & Paul A. [Wright]

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Hegi, Walter E., 1901-1968
Wright, Paul A.

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Investigation--California--Los Angeles
Crimes of passion--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Disaster
Legal