Automobiles in the Mojave Desert during a search for murder victim remains during the Gordon Stewart Northcott case, Riverside County, 1928-1929

Title: Automobiles in the Mojave Desert during a search for murder victim remains during the Gordon Stewart Northcott case, Riverside County, 1928-1929
Date Created: [between 1928-1930]
Date: 1928/1930
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Line of automobiles on Gordon Stewart Northcott's chicken coop ranch in Riverside, California, where an investigation was in place in search of evidence and/or bodily remains of his murder victims. Northcott was accused of kidnapping, molesting, torturing, and brutally murdering three young boys and aiding in the murder of another in 1928, which his mother admitted to, and she received a life sentence in jail. Northcott was found guilty on all accounts and was executed by hanging on October 2, 1930 at the age of 23.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Eastman, George. Gordon Scoot ['Stewart' is written in below with an arrow to Scoot] Northcott murder case, 1928. nitrates.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: Riverside County (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Crime scene searches--California--Riverside County
Automobiles
Criminal investigations--California--Riverside

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_2064
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dd04h
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