Samuel T. Whittaker and James Fagan Culver are arrested in connection with the murder of Ethel Whittaker, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: Samuel T. Whittaker and James Fagan Culver are arrested in connection with the murder of Ethel Whittaker, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: March-April 1936
Date: 1936-03-04
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Similar photograph appears with the article, "Mate Jailed in Slaying," Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar 1936: A1.
Samuel Whittaker has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife, paying transient James Fagan Culver to shoot her at the hotel the Whittakers were staying at during a fake hold-up.
Culver and Whittaker sit on a bench looking at each other. Both of them hold a cigarette.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: 141 141 James Culver Sam Whittaker
Text from negative sleeve: 4412 - 4/14/36 James Culver Samuel T. Whittaker Murder 3/10/36

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Culver, James Fagan, b. 1912 or 1913
Whittaker, Samuel T., 1876-1937
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Staffs (Sticks)
Cigarettes
Tramps--American--California--Los Angeles
Seating furniture--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_13586
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hnt6h
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