Bizarrely decorated clock which concealed money stolen by accused murderer Fred Stettler, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: Bizarrely decorated clock which concealed money stolen by accused murderer Fred Stettler, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: between February 21 and February 29, 1936
Date: 1936-02-21/1936-02-29
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Bizarrely decorated clock belonging to Fred Stettler, a Swiss chauffeur accused of the murders of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Barbour. Stettler showed police $25 in bills hidden in the clock and confessed to having stolen the money from the Barbours after murdering the couple with a heavy object and setting the bodies on fire
Caption: Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Fred Stettler's clock
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Stettler, Fred; Wallace, Bert; Ledbetter, Miles; Stettler's clock
Text from archival nitrate sleeve: Stettler, Fred; Wallace, Bert; Ledbetter, Miles; Stettler's clock

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Stettler, Gottfried, b. 1911
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Clocks and watches--California--Los Angeles
Crime
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Arts

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0025fr0m
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Rights statement: copyrighted
Rights Holder: UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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