Martin P. Asbill pleads guilty of manslaughter, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Martin P. Asbill pleads guilty of manslaughter, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

September 1935

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Guilt Plea Halts Trial," Los Angeles Times, 04 Sep 1935: A8.
Martin Asbill is photographed standing slightly elevated above the photographer. He looks off to the side out of the corner of his eye. Another man, possibly his attorney, stands beside him looking at a stack of papers. His face has been drawn over with several white lines on the photograph.
Sailor Milton Asbill has decided to accept one to ten years on a manslaughter charge rather than go to trial for murder. He pleaded before Superior Judge Scott. Asbill and another sailor by the name of David R. Foss beat a political worker by the name of Raymond McLaughlin to death with a cement block and left his body beneath a pepper tree in a vacant lot.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 1947- Milton P Asbill Manslaughter 9-3-35 [stamped:] Sep 4- 1935

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Sailors--American--California--Los Angeles
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles

Names

Asbill, Martin Pearl, b. circa 1913

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image