Witness testifies during Louis R. Payne murder trial, Los Angeles, 1934-1935

Title: Witness testifies during Louis R. Payne murder trial, Los Angeles, 1934-1935
Date Created: [between June, 1934 and January, 1935]
Date: 1934-06/1935-01
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: In early June, 1934, police officers discovered the bodies of Carrie L. Payne, 45, and Robert Payne, 15, at their Westwood home. They had been brutally murdered by Louis R. Payne, their respective son and brother, in late May. Payne was arrested several days after he committed the crime and after confessing at a Huntington Beach police station. In January, 1935 he plead insanity and was sent to a sanitarium.
A bespectacled man sits at the witness stand in a courtroom.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Payne, Louis R. Murder Case

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_7199
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cxjvd
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Rights statement: copyrighted
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Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
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