District Attorney Buron Fitts with Joe Houtenbrink and Charles Hope, witnesses in Mary Emma James murder case, 1936

Item Overview

Title

District Attorney Buron Fitts with Joe Houtenbrink and Charles Hope, witnesses in Mary Emma James murder case, 1936

Date Created

1936

Date

1936

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Buron Fitts, Joe Houtenbrink, and Charles Hope, all in casual clothing, standing in office, Houtenbrink with finger raised, Hope with cigarette, with desk and law books in background
This photograph, cropped, appears with Los Angeles Times article, May 3, 1936, Snake Man Tells Sale, Describes Buyer of Repitles [sic], Statement Tends to Back Story of Charles Hope in James Case

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Joe Houtenbrink, known as Snake Joe, left, shown as he identified Charles Hope as the man who bought rattlesnakes from him shortly before the fishpond death of Mrs. Mary James. Times photo
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 1738, 1 of 2, Nitrate, May 12, 1936, 7 [struck out in pen: 10] negs. Robert S. James, Charles (Chuck) Hope, Joe Houtenbrink (Snake Joe), Buron Fitts (D.A.), Robert P. Stewart, Lois Wright, Marjorie Fairchild (D.A. Investigator), Incinerator back of Beverly & Vermont, James case (2/6/36)
Handwritten at edge of negative: Buron Fitts, Joe Houtenbrink, Charles (Chuck) Hope

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Houtenbrink, Johanssen C., b. 1905
Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973
Hope, Charles H., 1899-1966

Resource type

still image

Subjects

People
Legal