Detective Lieutenant Vernon Rasmussen and murderer Charles "Chas" Layman, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Detective Lieutenant Vernon Rasmussen and murderer Charles "Chas" Layman, 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: Detective Lieutenant Rasmussen sits beside Layman, whose hands remain folded in his lap. Rows of spectators are seated behind them.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Massacre Blame Fixed" Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec 1935: A1.
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.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 4136 - Dect. Lt. Rasmussen Chas Layman Murder 12/19/35 [stamped:] Dec 23 1935
Handwritten on negative: Dt. Lt. Rasmussen Chas. Layman 12/19/35 153 153

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Layman, Charles
Rasmussen, Vernon, 1900-1979
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_13140
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hn8sk
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Rights Country: US
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