Murder suspect Robert S. James smoking and reading a newspaper in his jail cell, Los Angeles, 1936
Item Overview
- Title
- Murder suspect Robert S. James smoking and reading a newspaper in his jail cell, Los Angeles, 1936
- Date Created
- [circa May 1936]
- Date
- 1936-05
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- "Rattlesnake" murderer Robert S. James smoking a cigarette and reading a newspaper in his jail cell. James had tied down his pregnant fifth wife and forced a rattlesnake to bite her, and then later drowned her in their fish pond. He was supposedly helped by his friend, ex-sailor Charles H. Hope, who was also charged with murder.
- Caption
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Text from original nitrate sleeve: James, Robert S.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Robert S. James
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- James, Robert S.
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Criminals--California--Los Angeles
Crime
Legal
Media
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002888j4
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .