Judge Charles Fricke watches as Joseph Ryan and George Stahlman confer with Nellie May Madison on the stand, Los Angeles County, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Judge Charles Fricke watches as Joseph Ryan and George Stahlman confer with Nellie May Madison on the stand, Los Angeles County, 1934

Date Created

June 1934

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Mrs. Madison denies shooting husband Eric Madison and speculates that the man who was buried at his funeral was not him, and also denies that the corpse shown to her in photographs of her husband are not of his body.
Photograph appears with the article, "Mrs. Madison on Stand Denies Killing Husband," Los Angeles Times, 15 June 1934: A1.
Judge Fricke looks on as Ryan and Stahlman show a stack of papers to Mrs. Madison.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: MADISON, NELLIE MURDER CASE
Handwritten on negative: Joe Ryan George Stahlman Nellie Madison Judge Fricke
Text from negative sleeve: Candid Camera View of Courtroom When Mrs. Madison Took Stand Left to right-Defense Counsel Joseph Ryan, Dep. Dist.-Atty. Stahlman, Mrs. Nellie Madison and Superior Judge Fricke.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Blackboards
Judges--California--Los Angeles County
Lawyers--California--Los Angeles County
Widows
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles County

Names

Fricke, Charles W., 1882-1958
Madison, Nellie May, 1895-1953
Stahlman, George
Ryan, Joseph, 1901-1969

Resource type

still image