Samuel Whittaker, Det. Lt. Ray Giese, Det. Lt. Thad Brown, and James Fagan Culver, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: Samuel Whittaker, Det. Lt. Ray Giese, Det. Lt. Thad Brown, and James Fagan Culver, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: March 17, 1936
Date: 1936-03-17
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Samuel Whittaker is being investigated on suspicion of murdering his wife, Ethel E. Whittaker, paying transient James Fagan Culver to shoot her at the hotel the Whittakers were staying at during a fake hold-up.
A similar photograph likely taken on the same occasion appears in the article, "Story Told of Shooting," Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar 1936: A2.
From left to right: Samuel Whittaker, Ray Giese, Thad Brown, James Fagan Culver. Whittaker is pointing his cane at Culver.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Samuel Whittaker, Ray Giese, Thad brown, James Fagan Culver
Text from negative sleeve: 4412 -- James Fagan Culver - Thad Brown - Ray Gise - Samuel Whittaker [stamped:] MAR 25 1936

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Brown, Thad, 1902-1970
Whittaker, Samuel T., 1876-1937
Giese, Ray
Culver, James Fagan, b. 1912 or 1913
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles
Detectives--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_13594
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hntgn
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Rights Country: US
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