Gray E. McNeer, Lola McNeer, S. S. Hahn and W. O. Graf around the time of McNeer's trial, Los Angeles, circa 1934

Item Overview

Title

Gray E. McNeer, Lola McNeer, S. S. Hahn and W. O. Graf around the time of McNeer's trial, Los Angeles, circa 1934

Date Created

[circa 1934]

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Similar photograph appears with the article, "Wife Death Trial Faced By M' Neer," Los Angeles Times, 07 Aug 1934: A2.
McNeer reclines in his wheelchair resting an arm against his mother. His attorney Hahn signs a piece of paper that Mrs. McNeer holds while W.O. Graf watches.
33-year-old Gray E. McNeer is brought to court on charges of fatally shooting his wife, Beatrice Helene McNeer. Gray McNeer is brought into Municipal Judge Galbreth's court in a wheelchair with a bandaged face from a gunshot wound that he ascertains his wife gave him before she turned the gun on herself.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: MCNEER, GRAY EVERETT MURDER CASE, 1934
Handwritten on negative: S. S. Hahn W. O Graf Gray Everett McNeer Mrs Lola McNeer

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Mothers--California--Los Angeles
Wheelchairs
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Sons--American--California--Los Angeles
Bandages

Names

McNeer, Lola, 1869-1936
McNeer, Gray Everett, 1902 or 03-1964
Graf, W.O.
Hahn, S. S. (Samuel S.), 1889-1957

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image