Jury for the trial of Albert Dyer, confessed murderer of three Inglewood girls, Los Angeles, August 11, 1937
Item Overview
- Title
- Jury for the trial of Albert Dyer, confessed murderer of three Inglewood girls, Los Angeles, August 11, 1937
- Date Created
- August 11, 1937
- Date
- 1937-08-11
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Front row left to right: Mrs. Dorothy Deel, Jackson Collins, Mrs. Grace A. Calvert, Harold Harby, George Ritchie, and Ben Fulton. Back row left to right: Mrs. Winifred W. Howard, Mrs. Beatrice Hard, Charles M. Truax, Mrs. Shirley Angranoff, Mrs. Ruth Roth (later replaced by Butler E. Shaw), and James D. Kelly. The original jury for the trial of Albert Dyer, a 32 year old W.P.A crossing guard who confessed to the murders of three Inglewood girls. Dyer admitted to luring the girls; Madeline Everett (9), Melba Everett (7), and Jeanette Stephens (8) into the woods on the pretense of helping them catch rabbits and then strangled them in succession. Dyer was sentenced to death after the jury's two day debate. On September 16, 1938 at San Quentin Prison, Dyer was one of the last people to be hung in the state of California
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
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Truax, Charles M., 1908-1998
Howard, Winifred Woodrow, 1886-1949
Harby, Harold, 1894-1978
Angranoff, Shirley
Ritchie, George
Deel, Dorothy, 1911-1999
Calvert, Grace A.
Kelly, James D.
Dyer, Albert, 1905-1938
Collins, Jackson, 1881-1947
Roth, Ruth
Fulton, Ben D., 1870-1965
Hard, Beatrice - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Girls--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Juries--California--Los Angeles
Strangling--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
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