Investigators find a jacket while searching for evidence at a ranch visited by Gordon Northcott, Santa Clarita, circa 1928

Item Overview

Title

Investigators find a jacket while searching for evidence at a ranch visited by Gordon Northcott, Santa Clarita, circa 1928

Date Created

[circa September, 1928]

Date

1928-09

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Possibly related to the article, "Mystery Shack, Boys' Shoes Found in 'Death Farm' Hunt: OFFICERS TAKEN TO CANYON HUT Clark Lad Leads Them Also to Filled-up Well Net Being Drawn Closer on Northcott Fugitives Other Clews Being Revealed in Grewsome Case," Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 1928: A2
At center, 2 investigators stand behind a work bench and hold up a distressed jacket. They found it while searching for evidence on a ranch in Mint Canyon once used by Gordon S. Northcott. Other articles of clothing lie across the bench. Both investigators lean over the bench and face towards camera as they hold up the jacket. The ranch's chicken coop is visible in the background. Gordon S. Northcott was later tried, convicted and executed for the serial murders of young boys in the area.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Northcott, Gordon murder case nitrates [handwritten:] (Box 27) 3

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Northcott, Gordon Stewart, 1906?-1930

Location

Mint Canyon (Santa Clarita, Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Serial murders--California--Riverside County
Crime scene searches--California--Santa Clarita
Ranches--California--Santa Clarita
Serial murders--California--Los Angeles County
Evidence (law)
Police--California--Santa Clarita
Coats