Gordon S. Northcott sits at the counsel's table with his defense attorneys, Riverside, circa 1929

Title: Gordon S. Northcott sits at the counsel's table with his defense attorneys, Riverside, circa 1929
Date Created: [circa January, 1929]
Date: 1929-01/1929-02
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description: A similar photograph of Gordon S. Northcott in court appears with the article, "NORTHCOTT BAFFLED: Court Denies His Insanity Plea New Judge Rules Against to Not Guilty Stand Further Delay Turned Down; One Riverside Jurist Steps Out of Case," Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 1929: 1
At center, Gordon S. Northcott sits in court with his defense attorneys during his trial in Riverside. He and his lawyers sit in a row behind the counsel's table. His face is blurry as he turns to look to the camera. To the right of Northcott, Norbert Savay sits. Behind and to the left of Northcott, in no particular order, sit attorneys A. H. DeTremaudan, David Sokol and J. McKinley Cameron. Spectators sit in the gallery, behind and to the right of the defense. Gordon Stewart Northcott and his mother Louisa were accused of kidnapping, abusing & murdering 4 boys on their chicken ranch in Riverside County. Louisa confessed to killing one boy, Walter Collins, and was sentenced to life in prison. Gordon was tried and convicted on 3 counts for murdering Louis & Nelson Winslow & an unidentified Latino boy. He was executed by hanging on October 2, 1930.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Northcott, Gordon murder case nitrates [handwritten:] (Box 27) 2

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Savay, Norbert, 1873-1950
Cameron, John McKinley, 1878-1943
DeTremaudan, A. H.
Sokol, David, 1906 or 07-2003
Northcott, Gordon Stewart, 1906?-1930
Location: Riverside (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Judicial proceedings--California--Riverside
Serial murderers--California--Riverside
Courtrooms--California--Riverside
Lawyers--California--Riverside

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_6696
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cwzhk
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