Charles "Chas" Layman on trial for murder of six W.P.A. workers, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Charles "Chas" Layman on trial for murder of six W.P.A. workers, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: December 19, 1935
Date: 1935-12-19
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Families of the W.P.A. members slain and witnesses crowded in the courtroom to listen to the inquest of Charles Layman, former W.P.A. employee, who shot and killed six workmen at a site near La Brea Avenue and Exposition Boulevard.
Different photographs of the trial and Charles Layman appear in the article, "Massacre Blame Fixed" Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec 1935: A1.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Chas Layman 12/19/35
Text from negative sleeve: [handwritten:] 4136 -- Chas. Layman WPA project murder of 5 fellow workers 12/19/35 [stamped:] DEC 23 1935

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Layman, Charles
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Criminals--California--Los Angeles
Shooting--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_13139
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hn8r2
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