Mother of Leo Pat Kelly, convicted of manslaughter in the death of Myrtle Mellus, Los Angeles, 1928

Title: Mother of Leo Pat Kelly, convicted of manslaughter in the death of Myrtle Mellus, Los Angeles, 1928
Date Created: [August 1928]
Date: 1928-08
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Mother of Leo Pat Kelly, seated with a Los Angeles Times newspaper, shortly after her son was accused of the murder of society woman Myrtle Mellus.
Related to the article, "Husband Finds Society Woman Slain and Officers Seize Suspect Hiding in Home," Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 1928: A2.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Kelly, Leo P. Murder case.
Handwritten on negative: Mother of Leo Pat Kelly

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Kelly, Leo Pat, b. 1898 or 1899
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Crimes of passion--California--Los Angeles
Mothers--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_10581
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hbkcp
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Rights statement: copyrighted
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Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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