Gordon Northcott, accused of murdering four young men, en route to San Quentin, Los Angeles, 1929

Title: Gordon Northcott, accused of murdering four young men, en route to San Quentin, Los Angeles, 1929
Date Created: [circa February, 1929]
Date: 1929-02
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Similar photograph appears with the article, "Doomed Youth Relates Plans," Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb 1929: A2.
A grinning Northcott waves from the window of his train with C.F. Rayburn sitting grimly across from him.
Gordon Stewart Northcott makes the last leg of his journey escorted by Riverside sheriffs as he travels to San Quentin. The 22-year-old Wineville boy butcher is on death row.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: p + a
Text from negative sleeve: Northcott, Gordon murder case nitrates (Box 27) 1

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Northcott, Gordon Stewart, 1906?-1930
Rayburn, Carl Francis, 1892-1966
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Arrivals & departures--American--California
Criminals--California--Los Angeles
Railroad trains--American--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cwzg2
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Rights Country: US
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