Captain Walter E. Hegi of the Glendale Police Dept. and Paul A. Wright during an investigation of the double murder of Wright's wife and best friend, Los Angeles, November 1937
Item Overview
- Title
- Captain Walter E. Hegi of the Glendale Police Dept. and Paul A. Wright during an investigation of the double murder of Wright's wife and best friend, Los Angeles, November 1937
- Date Created
- November 1937
- Date
- 1937-11
- 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) with airline official Paul A. Wright early on in the investigation of the double murder of Wright's wife Evelyn and best friend, John Kimmel. A crime to which Wright had confessed. Wright testified that he shot his wife and best friend after finding them 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
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
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Hegi, Walter E., 1901-1968
Wright, Paul A. - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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People
Investigation--California--Los Angeles
Crimes of passion--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
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- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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