Crowd gathers outside the Los Angeles County courthouse to catch a glimpse of accused murder Louise Peete, Los Angeles, 1921
Item Overview
- Title
- Crowd gathers outside the Los Angeles County courthouse to catch a glimpse of accused murder Louise Peete, Los Angeles, 1921
- Date Created
- [January 29, 1921]
- Date
- 1921-01-29
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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This photograph appears with the article, “MRS. PEETE DAILY ‘FREE SHOW.’: Extraordinary Phase of Sensational Murder Trial Supplied by the Thousands Who Mass on the Street to Catch Brief Glimpse of Her on Way to Courtroom. Here is a Typical "Peets Crowd" Waiting to See Woman Accused of Denton Murder Take Seventy Steps in Public. EARLY ONES OUT BEFORE DAY TO SEE MRS. PEETE; Throngs Wait Weary Hours for Mere Glimpse of Defendant; Courtroom Guards Besieged With Wiles,” Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan 1921: II1
Louise Peete was convicted on Feb. 5, 1921 of first-degree murder in the death of Jacob Denton. She served 18 years in San Quentin before being released. In 1945 she was convicted of a second murder, this time of Margaret Logan, a wealthy woman who had supported Peete while she was in prison. For the second murder she was given the death penalty, and in 1947 became the second woman to be executed in California.
View of a crowd gathered apparently near of murderer Louise Peete. S sign on a building reads "Egbert Brothers Wholesale Magazines."
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- Peete, Louise, 1888-1947
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Spectators--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_11199
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002h969w
- Manifest url
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
- Funding Note
- 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 .