Deputy Sheriff Bess Bailey escorts Betty Flay Hardaker during her trial for the murder of her daughter, Los Angeles, 1940

Title: Deputy Sheriff Bess Bailey escorts Betty Flay Hardaker during her trial for the murder of her daughter, Los Angeles, 1940
Date Created: February 23, 1940
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Deputy Sheriff Bess Bailey escorts Betty Flay Hardaker during the inquest conducted by Deputy Coroner Frank Monfort. Mrs. Hardaker was convicted of murdering her 5 year old daugher, Geraldine Hardaker, in a Montebello park washroom. The jury convicted her of committing the crime while of unsound mind.
Caption: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Hardaker, Betty - Mrs.; Karnes, Samuel - Mr.; Bailey, Bess - Dep. Sheriff; Hardaker, Charles; Tait, Lorraine; Hosking, Madge.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Betty Hardaker and Dep. Sheriff Bess Bailey.

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Subjects: People
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Legal
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Names: Hardaker, Betty Flay
Bailey, Bess, b. 1904 or 05
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1387_22815-04
22815
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0027zx55
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