Bert C. Webster visits the location of Dr. Benjamin Baldwin's body with police, Newhall, 1924

Title: Bert C. Webster visits the location of Dr. Benjamin Baldwin's body with police, Newhall, 1924
Date Created: April 1924
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Similar photograph appears with the headline, "Where Trunk Was Cast Into Ditch by Slayer and Man Held in Case," Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr 1924: 2.
Margaret Willis and Bert C. Webster tossed the body of Dr. Benjamin Baldwin over this railing a short distance south of the Newhall tunnel after Willis killed him and stuffed his body into a trunk.
Bert Webster stands with a group of men, the one closest to the camera most likely identifiable as Detective Longuevan.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: WILLIS, MARGARET MURDER CASE

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Subjects: Police--California--Newhall
Criminal investigations--California--Newhall
Names: Longuevan, Dwight West, 1890-1959
Webster, Bert C.
Location: Newhall (Calif.)
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_4495
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cq9c3
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Rights Country: US
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