Philip Pearl tried for murder of William E. Simpson, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview
- Title
- Philip Pearl tried for murder of William E. Simpson, Los Angeles, 1935
- Date Created
- October 3, 1935
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Philip Pearl sits in a courtroom with his nephew Carl in his lap and a newspaper in one hand.
Philip Shereshewfsky is referred to with the surname of "Pearl" in early newspaper articles relating to the trial. His first name is spelled alternately as "Philip" or "Phillip" in various articles. His family possibly used both last names interchangeably.
Philip Pearl was put on trial for the murder of William E. Simpson, his landlord, who died during a heated argument with Pearl. After being struck by Pearl, Simpson hit the pavement and died from a skull fracture.
This photograph is possibly related to the article, "Death Listed as Homicide," Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct 1935: A3. - Caption
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Text from negative sleeve: Philip Pearl (Defendant) Carl Morsch - 3 yrs. Simpson Inquest [stamped:] OCT 18, 1935
Handwritten on negative: Philip Pearl holding Carl Morsch - 3 yrs 10-3-35
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Subjects
- Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles
- Names
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Morsch, Carl, b. 1932
Shereshewfsky, Phillip, b. ca. 1918 - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
- uclamss_1429_8868
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dgtnr
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Funding Note
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. - License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .