Virginia Carter gives testimony against her mother to Judge Borwon, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Virginia Carter gives testimony against her mother to Judge Borwon, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

June 8, 1935

Date

1935-06-08

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

This photograph appears with the article, “Child Tells of Seeing Killing: Girl Changes Her Story in Mother’s Death Case Court Scene as Small Girl Tells of Fatal Shooting GIRL UPSETS DEATH TRIAL Accused Mother Took Gun From Woman, Says Child in Changed Testimony,” Los Angeles Times, 8 Jun. 1935: 1.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: All the State’s most sanguine hopes of convicting Mrs. Gladys Carter and sending her to the gallows for the slaying of Miss Frances Wallace are pinned on the testimony of the accused woman’s 7-year-old child, Virginia. This scene depicts the little girl on the witness stand, F. L. Knox, court reporter, is shown penning the words that may spell the mother’s doom. Superior Judge Bowron is seen on the bench. The child’s doll is beside her on the stand. Cross-questioning failed to shake the girl after she had told new story of killing.
Handwritten on negative: Virginia Carter, Judge Bowron.
Text from negative sleeve: 1087—Virginia Carter, Judge Bowron 7-7-35 [Stamped:] JUL 17 1935.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Bowron, Judge
Knox, F. L.
Carter, Virginia, 1930-

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Children--California--Los Angeles
Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Judges--California--Los Angeles