Nellie Madison sentenced to death, in court with William J. F. Brown, Los Angeles, 1934

Title: Nellie Madison sentenced to death, in court with William J. F. Brown, Los Angeles, 1934
Date Created: June 22, 1934
Date: 1934-06-22
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: 39-year-old Nellie Madison, on suspicion of fatally shooting husband Eric D. Madison in their Burbank apartment, was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to be hanged. She was the first woman to be sentenced to death in the state of California.
Madison wears a black dress in all three photographs and has a white coat over her dress in the last two. Her former husband William J. F. Brown, in glasses, sits beside her in all three photographs.
A similar photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Doom Heard By Widow," Los Angeles Times, 23 Jun 1934: 1.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Madison, Nellie Murder Case

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_6206
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cwcmx
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