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: 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.
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.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Northcott, Gordon murder case nitrates (Box 27) 1
Handwritten on negative: p + a

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Rayburn, Carl Francis, 1892-1966
Northcott, Gordon Stewart, 1906?-1930
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
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_6695
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cwzg2
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Rights Country: US
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